Ender Quotes:

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Ender, Poke

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Winning, Problem, Ender

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Race, Welcome, Ender, Enders Game

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Nonsense, Said, Ender

We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Ender, Said

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Interesting, Ender

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Love You, Matter, Ender

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Thank God, Ender

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

- Orson Scott Card

source: "Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga". Book by Orson Scott Card, September, 2005.

topic: Ender, Said, Devoted

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Freedom, Men, Humanity, Ender, Enders Game

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Strong, Smart, Stupid, Ender

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

source: Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

topic: Lying, Lakes, Order, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Lying, Sometimes, Dependable, Ender, Enders Game

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Enemy, Defeat, Moments, Ender, Ender Wiggin

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Teacher, Strong, Men, Ender, Ender Wiggin

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

- James Agate

source: James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

topic: New Year, Years, Doe, Spiritual New Year, Happy New Year

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

topic: Clever, Stupid, Thinking, Ender, Ender Wiggin

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; 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.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Pain, Forever, Doubt, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Enemy, Ender, Enders Game

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Inspired To Work, Ender

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Eye, His Eyes, Ears, Ender, Enders Game

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

topic: Care, Tests, Firsts, Ender, Enders Game

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.84, Macmillan

topic: Hot, Use, Growing, Ender, Enders Game

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.91, Macmillan

topic: Fear, Winning, Men, Ender, Enders Game

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: War, Ender, Enders Game

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.21, Macmillan

topic: Fighting, Winning, Enders Game, Ender, Game Book

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Believe, Matter, Way, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Motivational, Christmas, New Year, Spiritual New Year, Year One

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Pain, Who I Am, Long, Ender, Ender Wiggin

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.137, Macmillan

topic: Enders Game, Subjects, Ifs, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Humanity, Doe, Brilliant, Ender, Enders Game

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Believe, Thinking, Want, Ender, Ender Wiggin

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Inspirational, Life, Identity, Ender, Enders Game

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings, Indian Happy New Year, Another Year

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

topic: Enemy, Remember, Enders Game, Ender

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Eye, Home, Winning, Ender, Want Him

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Teacher, Hate, Fighting, Ender, Enders Game

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Trying, Stories, Ender

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Father, Home, Boys, Ender, Ender Wiggin

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Hate, Hate You, Stop Hating, Ender, Enders Game

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Stupid, Eye, Men, Ender

Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Prayer, Cooperation, Boat, Ender

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Mother, Memories, Reading, Ender

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. 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.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Soldier, Too Much, Larger Than Life, Ender, Ender Wiggin

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.27, Macmillan

topic: Knowing, People, Information, Ender

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: School, Self, Care, Ender, Cannibalism

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

topic: Thinking, Animal, Said, Ender

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Book, Games, Stories, Ender

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Stories, World, Narrative, Outbreaks, Ender

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Said, Ender