Face reality Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Face reality
“He could really fool the shit out of himself. A guy had to be careful about creating his own reality. Because you could get… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach then real life ones.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.” — John Quincy Adams 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
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Let's face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime. — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what if this would have been different with us. What if we didnt live so far? what if we hadnt of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
When you face reality and realize you take life for granted. Kids like us dont understand how lucky we really are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And here is the alternative in which man risks himself, even if almost unconsciously: either you face reality wide open, loyally, with the bright eyes of a child, calling a spade a spade, embracing its entire presence, even its meaning; either this, or you place yourself in front of reality, defend yourself against it, almost with your arms flung in… — Luigi Giussani Copy Share
Reality is a tough phase in life but when you face reality... You will conquer your goals or change for the good or bad!!!… — Tonycvbchicago Copy Share Image