Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "For those who seek allegory, it must be maddening. (It must be allegory! Of course Frodo is Christ! - or is Gollum Christ?) for those whose grasp on reality is so tenuous that they crave ever-increasing doses of "realism" in their reading, it offers nothing - unless, perhaps, a shortcut to the looney bin."
For those who seek allegory, it must be maddening. (It must be allegory! Of course Frodo is Christ! - or is Gollum Christ?) for those whose grasp on reality is so tenuous that they crave ever-increasing doses of "realism" in their reading, it offers nothing - unless, perhaps, a shortcut to the looney bin.
ARTHUR MILLER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I'm not an Emontional, but how???
DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.
NEHA KOTHARI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
PHILIP SCHAFF It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
C.S. LEWIS What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Things don't have significance: they only have existence.
ALBERTO CAEIRO See the world for what it is.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
DAN FLAVIN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
SHELLI THOMPSON Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
CRISTIANO RONALDO it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
C.S. LEWIS Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
ADAM SMITH I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MARTIN LUTHER To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!
JAMES C. DOBSON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
that doesn't lead to death.
JOHN RUSKIN Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
KATIE MCGARRY A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
URSULA K. LE GUIN If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There are no right answers to wrong questions.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There must be darkness to see the stars.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
URSULA K. LE GUIN You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Truth is a matter of the imagination.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
URSULA K. LE GUIN I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Why are men afraid of women?"
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
URSULA K. LE GUIN How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."
URSULA K. LE GUIN What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
URSULA K. LE GUIN The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUIN George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men.
URSULA K. LE GUIN On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN That is between me and my shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.
URSULA K. LE GUIN We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?