Orson Scott Card Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Giving, Honor, Dignity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.143, Macmillan

• Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Book, Giving

• The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving, Fantasy, Mental Illness

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.119, Macmillan

• I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Love You, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.9, Macmillan

• When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Giving, Needs

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

• If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creativity, Men, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.303, Macmillan

• As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.

  Orson Scott Card

  Light, Cities, Giving

• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

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  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

• The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Mistake, Believe

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

• People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga”, p.17, Hachette UK

• Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Brother, Giving, Easy

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.217, Macmillan

• With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving, Purpose, Life Is

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.666, Macmillan

• If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

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  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Wyrms”, p.68, Macmillan

• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

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  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

• As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Self, People

• Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Medicine

• If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

  Orson Scott Card

  Garden, Pigs, Giving

• And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.8, Macmillan

• Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Religious, Children, Couple

• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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