Compare Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compare Glaciers
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. — James Balog Copy Share Image
The museum at Ortles is dedicated to the world of ice so we wanted visitors to feel like they were inside a glacier. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing. — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Glacier Express shows that for the Swiss the mountains are a challenge rather than a barrier, there to be tunnelled under and driven… — Diccon Bewes Copy Share Image
“...Following the bird you lay into a deep turn in the steepening descent. It [the snow] is super soft, bottomless and amazingly light, yet… — Steve Baldwin Copy Share Image
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It is often said of people with second sight that their soul leaves the body. That doesn't happen to the glacier. But the next… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris. — Eustache Deschamps Copy Share Image
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and… — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
