Frases de Orson Scott Card

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“Veja como são os humanos: Questionamos todas as nossas crenças, exceto aquelas que realmente acreditamos, e aquelas que nunca pensamentos em questionar.”

“Não há melhor professor que o seu inimigo. Apenas ele vai dizer onde você é fraco, onde ele é forte.”

“Não es estrago,” he whispered, “es solo fecundo, e vou plantar jardim aí.”

“Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.”

“o poder de provocar dor é o único que conta, o poder de matar e destruir, já que, se você não puder matar, fica sempre à mercê daqueles que podem, e nada, nem ninguém, vai te salvar”

“He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn’t need no philosopher to tell him that.”

“The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.”

“I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.”

“You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.”

“All children are manipulators.”

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

“This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.”

“Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.”

“The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.”

“That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.”

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.”

“It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.”

“Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?”

“Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he’d stay stupid.”

“Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.”

“The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.”

“Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.”

“What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.”

“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”

“That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.”

“I don’t hold with prophets,” said Alvin. “Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.”

“There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.
I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.”

“[He] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.”

“You can’t change what you don’t understand.”

“Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.”

“Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.”

“When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.”

“Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him "Look at what you made me do!" That's the moral universe that [they] always lived in.”