Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. Le Guin
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman -
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy -
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
Katha Pollitt -
I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
Kaley Cuoco -
The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Pat Gillick -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
Fernando Botero -
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall -
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin
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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly Parton -
The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;As quietly and solemnlyAs Life when it is kissing Death.
W. H. Davies -
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius -
God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.
Jerry Van Dyke -
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin