Orson Scott Card Quotes on Expectations

19 quotes

  1. I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

  2. [He] always seemed to take it so personally that the universe didn't always work the way he wanted it to

  3. I have a sense of comfortableness in love; it isn't grand sweeping passions that I expected to feel.

  4. An eye for an eye? How Christian of you Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians

  5. I didn't know Christians got so angry

  6. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

  7. 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.

  8. It's tragic isn't it, that we don't always get what we want in this world.

  9. Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?

  10. Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  11. I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female. Don't you ever tell me again that just because I don't act like a woman wants me to act, that makes me an animal.

  12. Numb - that's just the feeling you hope for on your wedding night

  13. To him, their marriage was his very soul. To [her], their marriage was just a friendship with sex.

  14. I was prepared for him to have human failings, but I did not know he would own me with his eyes as if he had a right

  15. I thought that when I trusted you, that meant you would always act the way I wanted you to.

  16. Husbands are usually so overrated

  17. He liked a woman who knew how to spell out the rules. He also like it that she had the same rules as he did

  18. A man who has loved the perfect lover isn't likely to find a substitute very soon

  19. They had no use for a god who couldn't save them from everything

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