Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.Ursula K. Le Guin
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
Dan Marino -
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty -
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson -
I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
Hal Sparks -
I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
Abby Wambach -
'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
Idina Menzel -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
Octavia E. Butler -
Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
Zac Goldsmith -
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard -
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Zooey Deschanel -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Abraham Verghese
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Style is something you either have or don't have.
Christy Turlington -
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine -
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
E. M. Forster -
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.
Eliphas Levi -
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
Ursula K. Le Guin