Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

• Men
• Thinking
• Women
• Real
• May
• Soul
• Earth
• Sad
• Sea
• Sky
• Achievement

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Stress

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Simple

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Window

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Sea

• Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Love
  • Never

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• It Hancock happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva Goldsman writes really interesting material and there you have it.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Film
  • Smart
  • Intelligent

• I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,The hours go silently over our lifted faces,We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea.Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together.We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Together
  • High
  • Sleep

• America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

  

  Alveda King
  • America
  • Politics
  • Leader

• The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women