Orson Scott Card: Doing

Orson Scott Card is American science fiction novelist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

Stone Tables (1997)

“If you could stop the suffering and dying, and didn't stop it, then you are guilty. It is your fault.
We kill no one. We do not let them kill us. We have nothing to do with them.”

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Treason (1988)

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

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“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You killed more people than anybody in history."

"Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

Orson Scott Card

“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish… Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”

Orson Scott Card

“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

“Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

Orson Scott Card book Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box