Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Corners

• I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Daughter
  • First
  • Old

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Change
  • Spirit

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • Daughter

• If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Dirty
  • Immortality
  • Quick

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • Different
  • Brain

• The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Visit
  • Adventurer
  • Chile

• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Religion
  • River

• The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Relationship
  • Unknown

• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People

• In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Car

• If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

  

  Arthur Boyd

• I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music

• In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

  

  Milarepa
  • Death
  • Mountain
  • Horror

• The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Soul
  • Humanity

• A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin