335 quotes
I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
Lovelock (1994)
God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
Stone Tables (1997)
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
Earthfall (1995)
He didn't know if he had the right or not. Didn't know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.
Red Prophet (1988)
“You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."
"I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."
"But it keeps not ending."
"So far, so good.”
Ender's Shadow (1999)
The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
Red Prophet (1988)
They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?
Earthborn (1995)
You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
Songmaster (1979)
“What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?”
“It has problems, I admit.”
Seventh Son (1987)
Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
The Call Of Earth (1992)
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?
Homebody (1998)
You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
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.
Earthborn (1995)
Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
Red Prophet (1988)
We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?
Red Prophet (1988)
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
Alvin Journeyman (1995)