Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
Warren Spector
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
E. Joseph Cossman
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Baz Luhrmann
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
Madhuri Dixit
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
Garry Hynes
My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
Irina Shayk
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim
All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
Sam Altman
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.
Hamza Yusuf
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders, and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security.
Margaret Thatcher
It's true that the average human in the Xeelee universe can't eat Jell-O with a straw without accidentally removing an eye but these particular humans start off no stupider than than any other human of their era and proceed to breed themselves into imbecility. Well, farther into imbecility.
James Nicoll
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
Daisaku Ikeda
One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.
Ursula K. Le Guin
