Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Greed puts out the sun.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Different
  • Country

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • History
  • Career
  • Over

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • America
  • Earth
  • Leaders

• I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Stop
  • Doing

• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Tradition
  • Truthful

• Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

  

  Phyllis McGinley

• Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

  

  Maxwell Maltz
  • Stop

• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Father
  • Morning
  • Sun

• Greed puts out the sun.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sun
  • Greed