Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Story
  • Write
  • Upbringing

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Fashion
  • Scared
  • Overlook

• Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? / Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT / Safe, Harmless Information can be obtained of trained nurses at / 46 AMBOY STREET.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind

• People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • People

• And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

  

  Kevin Pollak
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Comedy

• Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Sweat
  • Edison

• You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin