Distance Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distance Distance Earth Earth God Fantasy Irony Measure Distance Nature Science fiction Trying Measure
“There is no distance so minute and yet so great as the distance between God and man. (The Lonesome God)” — Jonathan R. Walton Copy Share Image
“But we can't blame God for being distant when it was in fact us who never drew near.” — Phylicia D. Masonheimer Copy Share Image
“Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the closer I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.” — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.” — Heidi R. Kling Copy Share Image
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Sky-bound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.” — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.” — Bill Willingham 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
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
