Andrew Ender Wiggin Quotes & Sayings

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. — Madeleine Albright

I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this. — Orson Scott Card

Things could crawl at you out of the dark and hurt you again and again. The past did not always stay dead. — Ashley Gardner

How much longer can I get away
with being so fucking cute?
Not much longer. — Margaret Atwood

When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker - ever since I first learned Stark and read The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well."
"You did well, Human. — Orson Scott Card

I am here because I am the one that must love Peter so much that he can feel worthy, worthy enough to bear to let the goodness of Young Valentine flow into him, making him whole, making him Ender. Not Ender the Xenocide and Andrew the Speaker for the Dead, guilt and compassion mingled in one shattered, broken, unmendable heart, but Ender Wiggin the four-year-old boy whose life was twisted and broken when he was too young to defend himself. Wang-mu was the one who could give Peter permission to become the man that child should have grown up to be, if the world had been good. — Orson Scott Card

In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there. — Emery Lord

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife. — Desi Arnaz

Come on," he said to Valentine one day. "Let's fly away and live forever."
"We can't," she said. "There are miracles even relativity can't pull off, Ender."
"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
"So, stay."
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it."
So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentine, historian errant, writing down the stories of the living while Ender spoke the stories of the dead. And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time. — Orson Scott Card

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. — Orson Scott Card

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding. — Orson Scott Card

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. — Edsger Dijkstra

Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures. — Orson Scott Card

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday. — Martyn Rooney

Every language has its own music. — Sid Caesar

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. — Orson Scott Card