"To break a promise is to deny the……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future."
—
Ursula K. Le Guin
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has 344 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
-
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
-
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
-
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
-
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
-
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
-
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
-
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
-
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
-
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
See all 344 quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin »
More Break Quotes
This quote is filed under Break Quotes,
one of 6,142 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
-
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
— Paul Auster
-
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
-
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
-
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New…
— Kevin Bacon
-
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
— Russell Baker
-
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
— Russell Baker
-
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
-
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
— Jean Baudrillard
-
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
— Bob Beauprez
-
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
-
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
— Ezra Taft Benson
See all 6,142 Break Quotes »