Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Dreams

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • House
  • Sun
  • Reaction

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• The Church is not self-made, it was created by God and is continuously formed by Him. This finds expression in the Sacraments, above all in that of Baptism: I enter into the Church not by a bureaucratic act, but with the help of this Sacrament.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Help
  • Church

• No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.

  

  Plato
  • Progress

• She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Death
  • Lost