Peter Wiggin Quotes

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized? ~ Orson Scott Card

You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile. ~ Orson Scott Card

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

Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats, Peter, we've strayed from the topic, I think. ~ Orson Scott Card

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing. ~ Orson Scott Card

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily. ~ Peter F. Hamilton

I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory . ~ Peter J. Carroll

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals ... ~ Peter Kinderman

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. ~ Peter Ustinov

14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness. ~ Peter Landesman

Webster growled a Webster kind of prayer: "God Almighty, here is two more meek that has inherited Your earth." Webster spoke in his own peculiar way; we never did learn how to hear him. ~ Peter Matthiessen

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind. ~ Peter L. Berger

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. ~ Peter Steele

I love collaborating with people. ~ Peter Jackson

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank

when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . . ~ Peter Kreeft

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy. ~ Peter Singer

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it. ~ Peter Webber

It is often thought that the life of the hunter-gatherer was one of feast and famine. But most available data suggest that they were surprisingly healthy and had a fairly stable diet and lifestyle. Not so the primitive farmers. In years when the crops failed, in settlements where the population density was high and where disease weakened the ability to cope even further, life would have been very hard indeed. The settled population could not migrate to follow the food supply as could hunter-gatherers. They were trapped. ~ Peter Gluckman

It was only after we recorded Unknown Pleasures that I could hear and begin to take notice of the words, and it was quite startling then to see how they changed between that album, where they were still quite detached and aggressive, to Closer, which is even darker and not detached at all but really introspective and quite frightening - especially of course when you listen to it in light of what later happened. ~ Peter Hook

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician. ~ Peter Singer

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses. ~ Peter F. Hamilton

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. ~ Peter Hain

The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it
and I do
and subtle
beige, pink, white, tan, taup ... ~ Peter Greenaway

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on. ~ Peter Barris

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ~ Peter Medawar

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that. ~ Peter Garrett

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ~ Peter F. Drucker

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~ Peter Altenberg

From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays. ~ H. Peter Loewer

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies ... quality! ~ Peter Erskine

She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess so used to being ministered to that she no longer notices the servants and sees only a world where objects dumbly bend to her wishes, doors opening, faucets discharging cool water, delicious things appearing in her dish. ~ Peter Trachtenberg

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious. ~ Peter Senge

Freed was reportedly asked why he had not shot in Scotland, where the story is set, and said he'd been there and decided against it, because Scotland did not look Scottish enough and anyway, it was too rainy. The Scotland he and Minnelli wanted was a fairy-tale Scotland, distilled from centuries of mythic representation. ~ Peter Wollen

Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives. ~ Peter Behrens

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character. ~ Peter Riegert

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it. ~ Peter Jackson

My father told me by the time you die you'll be lucky if you have six people you called your friends to carry your coffin.I now realize and believe the truth is I thought if I had a dollar for every friend I in my life I'd be rich. The sad truth is if I had a penny for every true friend I have I wouldn't have a nickel. ~ Peter Fryer

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. ~ Pierre Abelard

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges. ~ Peter P. Mahoney

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. ~ Laurence J. Peter

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent. ~ Peter Boyle

Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they're wearing but who they are. ~ Peter Lindbergh

I had access to excerpts to the original version of Per Fine Ounce which were provided to us by David Jenkins, the son of Geoffrey Jenkins, with his consent to write another South Africa thriller using Commander Geoffrey Peace as the main character, and using the same title Per Fine Ounce. David kindly gave us permission to include previously unpublished extracts from the original Bond novel as a front piece for my novel. ~ Peter Vollmer

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up. ~ Peter Lynch

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise. ~ Peter Guber

Unless you can refute the central argument of this book, you should now recognize that speciesism is wrong, and this means that, if you take morality seriously, you should try to eliminate speciesist practices from your own life, and oppose them elsewhere. Otherwise no basis remains from which you can, without hypocrisy, criticize racism or sexism. ~ Peter Singer

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights. ~ J.M. Barrie

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way. ~ Peter Kreeft

Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys. ~ Peter Singer

I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully. ~ Peter Cook

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment. ~ Peter Block

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.. ~ Peter Tosh