Orson Scott Card citáty

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„Nemusíš sníst celé hovno, abys poznala, že to není piškotový dort.“

„Budoucnost je sto tisíc nitek, zatímco minulost je tkanina, kterou nelze utkat znovu.“

“The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.”

“Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.”

““Part of the test,” said Sillain, “is seeing how well you obey orders.”
“Then I fail,” said John Paul.”

“Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.”

“Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.”

“God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.”

“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”

““This is today’s puzzle,” he said. “If the act of denial can be taken as proof of the crime, how can an innocent man defend himself?”
The tithingmen caught him by the arms. “Come along now, Mr. Emerson, and don’t go trying any philosophy on us.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it,” said Waldo. “Philosophy would be wasted against such sturdy-headed men as you.”
“Glad you know it,” said the tithingman proudly. “Wouldn’t want you thinking we weren’t true Christians.””

“I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.”

“They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.”

“Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?”

“You are not what you seem.
So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?”

“I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.”

“You can afford me,” said Jane. “I’m cheap and you’re rich.”

“Only a fool can't be fooled.”

“I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.”

“There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.”

“May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.”

“Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.”

“This is what I want to do forever, each one thought. Rise in the morning, come to the mill, and work all day with him beside me. Never mind that the wish was impossible. Never mind that they might never see each other again, once the boy left for his apprenticeship back in the place of his birth. That only added to the sweetness of the moment, which would soon become a memory, would soon become a dream.”

“A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.”

“Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?”

“Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.”

“Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.”

“Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?”

“Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.”

““A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.”
“Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.”
“Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.””

“They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.”

“She knew that her feelings toward Bean were completely different. No such dreams and fantasies. Just a sense of complete acceptance. She belonged with Bean, not the way that a wife belonged with a husband or, God forbid, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, but rather way the left hand belonged to the right. They simply fit. Nothing exciting about it, nothing to write home about. But it could be counted on.”