A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
We're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake.a habit
[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you...
That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to...
Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.
Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let you take anything you own. Ender grinned and didn't cry after all. Think I should strip and go naked?A...
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement...
What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
The have influence, but no power.In my experience, influence is power.
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.