Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Security
  • Very

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Character
  • Man

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Hope
  • Attention

• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Hope
  • House
  • Die

• I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• Always have a plan when you shop. Have your list ready so that you know who you're purchasing gifts for and an estimate on how much you're going to spend.

  

  John Rampton

• The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfection

• Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time-but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • True
  • River

• But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history of the evolution of folk-rock in the UK. Over the years Ashley Hutchings, with his Albion Bands and Richard through his solo work have carried the torch to another level.

  

  Iain Matthews
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Book

• To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rock
  • River