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

• 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

• Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • European

• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Greed
  • Human Needs

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Today
  • Name
  • Tomorrow

• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Women
  • High
  • Strong

• Greed puts out the sun.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sun
  • Greed