Орсон Скотт Кард цитаты страница 7

„Он свинья. - Свиньи в целом вполне приличный народ.
- Ты прав, я к ним несправедлив.“

личинка
Источник: романы

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„Земля - это непрекращающийся треск цикад, свист ветра и пение птиц.“

свинья
Источник: Игра Эндера

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Я есть то, что я помню.“

земля
Источник: Игра Эндера

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Любовь — это богатство, которое ты можешь иметь только в том случае, когда все враги твои истреблены. До этого же, каждый кого ты любишь – заложник, ослабляющий твое бесстрашие и подкупающий трезвость твоего рассудка.“

Источник: Игра Эндера

“My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.”

Орсон Скотт Кард: Цитаты на английском языке

“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”

Orson Scott Card книга Heartfire

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 1.

“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”

Orson Scott Card Sarah

Источник: Sarah

“I am a creature of chemicals.”

Orson Scott Card книга Speaker for the Dead

Источник: Speaker for the Dead

“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

Orson Scott Card книга Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Источник: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

Orson Scott Card книга Xenocide

Источник: Xenocide

“You underestimate yourself.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

Orson Scott Card книга Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow

“The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.”

Orson Scott Card книга Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant

“Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.”

Treason (1988)

“It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

““I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”
“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?””

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 13.

“It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 12.

“Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.”

Treason (1988)

“When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

““You're such a liar.”
“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.””

Orson Scott Card книга Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.”

Orson Scott Card книга Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.”

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?”

Источник: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.”

Orson Scott Card книга Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

““Am I hired?”
“There is no legal way you can get me out of paying that much of my taxes.”
“On the contrary, Mr. Wiggin. The tax laws are designed to trick people into paying more than they have to. That way the rich who are in the know get to take advantage of drastic tax breaks, while those who don’t have such good connections and haven’t yet found an accountant who does are tricked into paying ludicrously higher amounts.””

Orson Scott Card книга Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Even the most "Rational" people — the ones who claimed not to have a religion — were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?"
"Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers."
"Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?”

Orson Scott Card книга Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)