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Makes Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.…
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing,…
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like…
- Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
- The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next
More Makes Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine