Orson Scott Card Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Orson Scott Card quotes, Orson Scott Card sayings, and Orson Scott Card proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. Orson Scott Card
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. Orson Scott Card
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging. Orson Scott Card
If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father? Orson Scott Card
The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. Orson Scott Card
The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. Orson Scott Card
Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. Orson Scott Card
The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. Orson Scott Card
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. Orson Scott Card
Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable. Orson Scott Card
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. Orson Scott Card
Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom. Orson Scott Card
There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them. Orson Scott Card
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. Orson Scott Card
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. Orson Scott Card
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. Orson Scott Card
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. Orson Scott Card
Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is sweet. Let it go on. Orson Scott Card
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. Orson Scott Card
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet. Orson Scott Card
For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. Orson Scott Card
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking. Orson Scott Card
When there aren’t any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best. Orson Scott Card
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals. Orson Scott Card
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending—the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending. Orson Scott Card
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. Orson Scott Card
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. Orson Scott Card
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls life. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. Orson Scott Card