Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

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• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

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• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

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• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

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• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

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• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

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• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

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• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

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  • Think
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• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

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• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

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• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
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• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

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• I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

  

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

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• At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

  

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• The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

  

  John Ortberg
  • People
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• The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Fear

• 'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fear