Top 36 Quotes About Ender Wiggin
#1. Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.
Orson Scott Card
#3. Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin
Orson Scott Card
#4. No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott Card
#5. In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.
Orson Scott Card
#6. Fate and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate.
Claudia Gray
#7. Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.
Orson Scott Card
#8. 'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big as the world down there, underneath the water. There could be anything down there. Things we can't even imagine. How can we understand anything if we can see so little of it?'
Augusta Li
#9. He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
Orson Scott Card
#10. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?
Orson Scott Card
#13. I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
Orson Scott Card
#14. Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.
Michael Ian Black
#15. He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.
Margaret Atwood
#16. I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
Orson Scott Card
#17. I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#18. Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.
Alex Stein
#19. I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
Desiderius Erasmus
#20. Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
Orson Scott Card
#22. Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
Orson Scott Card
#23. I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.
Orson Scott Card
#24. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
Orson Scott Card
#27. Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any
Jude Morgan
#28. God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.
Kay Arthur
#29. Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.
Orson Scott Card
#30. I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.
Orson Scott Card
#31. We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.
Orson Scott Card
#32. I thought commanders could order anything."
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.
Orson Scott Card
#33. Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for a higher place in the life to come.
John Allyn
#34. The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.
Orson Scott Card
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