Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Instinct
  • Guess

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Elections

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Together
  • Single

• Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Writing
  • Asks

• I very seldom read back into what I've written.

  

  John Berger

• The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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