Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human m...
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be read...
I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the one nex...
He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
Because here's the thingwe don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the e...
Are you all right, Sir? asked Hezekiah.Just fighting over old battles in my mind, said John. It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a...
When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.
There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a...
The loneliness of power.
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.
You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.