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
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• 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
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• 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
  • Life
  • Man
  • Interesting

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• 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
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• 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
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• 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
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• 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
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• 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
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• 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
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• 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
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Planet
  • Most

• 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
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life
  • Why
  • She

• Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

  

  Katherine Ursula Towle
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

  

  Anat R. Admati
  • Bad
  • Everywhere
  • Banking

• In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Reality

• I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

  

  Dee Bradley Baker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dad

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty