Earth Unaware Quotes

“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“Two glaserlike devices connected to each other like a bola that can be placed on opposite sides of an asteroid. Like earmuffs. They operate under the same principle, but their gravity fields counter each other, so the asteroid is still ripped to shreds by tidal forces, but the gravity field doesn’t grow to unstable levels. It’s far more contained. The rock is still ground to powder, but nobody dies.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The PCs were willing, but the powers that be didn’t want to commit troops.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“This is war, Father. I will never be free of you as long as you own this company and I am under your employ. I am done playing your little life lessons. It’s time I taught you a few of my own.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“See these protrusions here, here, and here. That’s tech.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The running joke was that at the graduation ceremony following their nine months of training, SAS graduates received the coveted tan beret in one hand and a broom in the other.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn’t moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He’d expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn’t take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“hatch. I wouldn’t risk another high-speed dock if we don’t have to.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“There wasn’t a trace of thrusters now.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware