Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  

  Karl Lehmann
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• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
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  • Car
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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
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• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

  M.I.A.
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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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  • Man
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• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
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• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • Loved
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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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  • Marriage
  • Years

• To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
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• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

  

  Plato
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• It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

  

  Jake McDorman
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• Everything I do in investment is just very different.

  

  Michael Burry
  • Different
  • Investment

• Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • God
  • Political