Empty hands Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty hands
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“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Don't let the walls fall down and crash your dreams. Build more walls up as you succeed.” — Laci Midgley Copy Share Image
“You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts I wish the walls were still there to protect me. It feels like growing up, as if the safety of the childhood has been stripped away, and I've woken up on the edge of something dangerous.… — Patrick Carman Copy Share
“Despite his obligation to other people, he wished at that moment he had walls.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken… — James Patrick Kelly 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 things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“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 why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
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
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the day, her weight echoed in my empty hands, light but dense, her throes and kicks.” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“There pass the careless people That call their souls their own: Here by the road I loiter, How idle and alone. Ah, past the… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands," cried the Professor, quite overcome. Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, "Not empty now," and,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Everything, except boredom, bores me. I’d like, without being calm, to calm down, To take life every day Like a medicine— One of those… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Despite an icy northeast wind huffing across the bay I sneak out after dark, after my mother falls asleep clutching her leather Bible, and I hike up the rutted road to the frosted meadow to stand in mist, my shoes in muck, and toss my echo against the moss-covered fieldstone corners of the burned-out church where Sunday nights in summer… — Bob Thurber Copy Share
“Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to find him.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles, or… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
