Xenocide Orson Quotes & Sayings

A quantitative EEG (QEEG) is a test that can indicate if a patient has a "noisy brain." This study is often done by advanced neurofeedback practitioners, and must be interpreted by an expert who has actually met with the patient, not simply run the information through a machine. — Norman Doidge

Bruno had a pain in his stomach and he could feel something growing inside him, something that when it worked its way up from the lowest depths inside him to the outside world would either make him shout and scream that the whole thing was wrong and unfair and a big mistake for which somebody would pay one of these days, or just make him burst into tears instead. — John Boyne

I just don't know if people actually perceive which events are miracles and which are not. There are no doubt many miracles claimed which were not miracles at all. There are also probably many miracles that no one recognized when they occurred. — Orson Scott Card

Men are like that. They're like geraniums. When they look as if they're ready to be tossed into the bin they revive. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world. — Ruth Glick

Emotion is the poetry of life. — Marty Rubin

I came to witness. I stay to fight. — Stephenie Meyer

Free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down one by one, then you can always say, Look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the casual chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to. — Orson Scott Card

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material. — Alison Moyet

I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength, but as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind. — Kwame Nkrumah

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. — Henry Sweet

Human beings remain grubs all the lives. — Orson Scott Card

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. — Iris Murdoch

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. — Orson Scott Card

You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"
- No?
"Only skies and stars, in all their varieties. Each one with its own flavour, and all flavours good"
- Now YOU think like a tree. Flavours! Of skies!
"I have tasted the heat of many stars, and all of them were sweet — Orson Scott Card

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion. — Kathryn Perez

Time with a friend was as refreshing as a nap. — Nora Roberts

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen

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

The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them. — Orson Scott Card

The way to create something great is to create something simple. — Richard Koch