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Way Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about…
- I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
- A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own…
- Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
- It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of…
- A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
- 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…
- Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in…
- As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does…
- As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as…
- Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
- I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . .…
- 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…
- Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
- 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…
More Way Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen