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Time Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day…
- It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
- Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that…
- Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn,…
- I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
- I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the…
- Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came…
- We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents…
- One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...
- 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…
- There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round…
- The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
- A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being…
- Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the…
- One must work with time and not against it.
- Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there…
- O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani