Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.

  

  James Wan
  • Life

• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Light
  • Evil

• Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Light
  • Shadow