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Good Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early…
- I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
- To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,…
- Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
- There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the…
- You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
- In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
- Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
- What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
- Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy…
- Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that…
- Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength…
- When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that…
- A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing…
- What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good…
- But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.…
- We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you,…
- In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word…
- You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what…
- In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can…
- Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if…
- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle