Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Own

• I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Wrestling
  • Little

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Pie
  • Biscuits
  • Cookbooks

• Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Love
  • Control

• Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Time

• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Smart

• Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Kindness