Top 100 Card Quotes
#2. We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong.
Dean Koontz
#3. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.
Robert Jordan
#4. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.
Orson Scott Card
#5. How... is she?" "She? I'm the one who's been shot. You're aware of that, right?" "Welcome to the full metal jacket club, counselor. I'll, uh, get you a membership card." "Get right on that.
Nathan Edmondson
#6. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
Algernon Blackwood
#7. Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
Orson Scott Card
#8. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#9. Any idea how we're going to choose our best men?" Hunter asked drowsily. Roman chuckled and gently pulled free of Hunter's body before saying, "I get to play the brother card so I think that puts just you in the hot seat." Hunter
Sloane Kennedy
#10. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"
"Peng you," I say.
"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.
Andrea Cheng
#11. I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card.
Stephen King
#12. The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.
Rick Riordan
#13. I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit
Nicole Krauss
#15. Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths
Orson Scott Card
#16. Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Orson Scott Card
#17. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.
Allan Dare Pearce
#18. Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
Orson Scott Card
#19. I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
Nia Vardalos
#20. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.
Orson Scott Card
#21. Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often.
Erika Robuck
#22. I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.
Richard Davidson
#23. Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
Orson Scott Card
#24. Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
Suze Orman
#25. The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
Orson Scott Card
#26. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall
#27. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
Orson Scott Card
#28. We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?
Orson Scott Card
#29. Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
Orson Scott Card
#30. He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.' Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.
Katherine Dunn
#31. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!
Garth Stein
#32. Lips. You need to have three or four smart questions ready, and it's nice to have them on a note card you take out so you really seem prepared.
Kate White
#33. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#34. I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.
Kim Kardashian
#35. Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources
Mathis Wackernagel
#36. I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed.
Kevin Kwan
#37. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
Orson Scott Card
#38. I thought you only had eyes for your ship."
God, she was beautiful. "Until I met you.
Lisa Kessler
#39. Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
Orson Scott Card
#40. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.
Elizabeth Heiter
#41. You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
George Michael
#42. My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.
Andy Andrews
#43. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
Hilary Swank
#44. I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender
Orson Scott Card
#45. They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
Kenneth Blackwell
#46. You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."
That's right," said Miro.
Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
Orson Scott Card
#47. Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.
Orson Scott Card
#48. Can I get you anything? A drink? A fresh change of clothes? A membership card to Hypocrites International?
Erin McCarthy
#49. I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.
John Oliver
#50. I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.
Portia De Rossi
#51. A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.
Orson Scott Card
#53. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.
Orson Scott Card
#54. Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Orson Scott Card
#55. We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.
Orson Scott Card
#56. He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.
Orson Scott Card
#57. Could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him; a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed
Orson Scott Card
#58. The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
Orson Scott Card
#59. One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
Orson Scott Card
#60. These things excite me so,' she whispered. 'If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
Orson Scott Card
#62. 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 find a way to survive
Orson Scott Card
#63. I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
Orson Scott Card
#64. The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
Thomm Quackenbush
#65. You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy it means businesspeople will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.
William J. Clinton
#66. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
Lawrence Wright
#67. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.
Orson Scott Card
#68. I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.
Orson Scott Card
#69. And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away
Hank Williams III
#70. I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon be telling me our life was declined. Everything, everyone had reached their limits with me.
Joshua Mohr
#71. Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'
Mark Bradford
#72. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#73. The world does not need another credit card.
Suze Orman
#74. You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.
Steve Forbert
#76. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
Brene Brown
#77. Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
Joshua Foer
#78. I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'
John C. McGinley
#79. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Orson Scott Card
#80. As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it ... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson
Orson Scott Card
#81. Glenn Beck is offended! Glenn Beck thinks playing the Nazi card is going too far. Glenn Beck. this is a guy who uses more Swastika props and video of the Nuremberg rallies than the History Channel.
Lewis Black
#82. I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
Orson Scott Card
#83. What do you call a comedian who runs for president? A trump card.
Michael R. Burch
#84. And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
Sebastian Faulks
#85. For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.
Yukio Mishima
#86. I've learned that you can't predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.
Taylor Swift
#87. When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song ... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
Allison Williams
#88. When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.
Orson Scott Card
#89. It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share.
Orson Scott Card
#90. Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans cannot even envision a car without a payment, a house without a mortgage, a student without a loan, and credit without a card. We
Dave Ramsey
#91. Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
Orson Scott Card
#92. The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
Vijay Singh
#93. Your dream is a good one. [ ... ] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.
Orson Scott Card
#94. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.
John Niven
#95. You are endowed with a peculiar gift, a wild card really, capable of thumping your history, while creating your future - called Free Will.
Garry Fitchett
#96. When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
Bubba Watson
#97. The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Orson Scott Card
#98. Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my neighbor: "I still live near you!" The guy sees me go into my apartment, flips the card over, it's just a picture of me holding a rifle.
Jim Gaffigan
#99. Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.
Sam Riley
#100. Life is a gift. Going to church is like sending a thank-you card.
Paul Acampora
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