Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
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But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
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I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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I have the world's worst pregnancies.
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.
