Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I'm really not worried about what fans think.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Really

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Listen
  • Religions
  • Lot

• I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Today
  • Day

• I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Science
  • Education

• I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Risk

• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• You can hate a man for many reasons, his color isn't one of them.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Hate
  • Color

• It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Understanding

• In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.

  

  Lawrence Wright

• I shall have more to say when I am dead.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

• There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Study
  • Manners
  • Delicate

• We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

  

  Al Stewart

• The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

  

  David Hewson
  • Truth
  • Spanish

• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Power
  • Air
  • Hero

• The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

  

  Clint Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Sound

• It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. The difference is that you can compel your car to go to a garage, but you cannot compel Hitler to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Energy
  • Car
  • Angry

• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Ages
  • Survives
  • Volumes

• The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin