Aaron Dwyer > Aaron's Quotes

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Madness, and then illumination.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”
― Orson Scott Card, Sarah

“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond.”
― Orson Scott Card

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes.
And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.
Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune