Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Women
  • Live

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Down

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Why
  • Government

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • History
  • Best

• Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Hard Work

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Fear

• I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Work
  • Country
  • History

• I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Career
  • Team

• One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth