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Quotes from Stone Tables — Orson Scott Card

born 1951 United States

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The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.

Stone Tables (1997)

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Stone Tables (1997)

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

Stone Tables (1997)

It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.

Stone Tables (1997)

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

Stone Tables (1997)

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Stone Tables (1997)

Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.

Stone Tables (1997)

He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.

Stone Tables (1997)

You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

Stone Tables (1997)

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

Stone Tables (1997)

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)

You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

Stone Tables (1997)

To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?
That's how most men live, and don't even know it.

Stone Tables (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orson Scott Card (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.