Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Men
  • Gold

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Survival

• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Beautiful

• 'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Choices