1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...

You’re cultural supremacists to the core. You’ll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn’t a chance in the world you’ll notice when they have something to teach you.

If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.

Maybe it isn’t based on what you deserve. Maybe it’s based on what you need.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man’s chest, there’s no going back.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I’m old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

The snake began to unweave itself from the rug again, only this time Ender did not hesitate. He stepped on the head of the snake and crushed it under his foot. It writhed and twisted under him, and in response he twisted and ground it deeper into the stone floor. Finally it was still. Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone. Then, still dragging the snake behind him, he began to look for a way out.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.? What is it then?? It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.