Quotes About Ursula

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

Now that the war looked as if it was going to last forever Ursula had decided she might as well embark on Proust.

Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. And here he was! What luck.

The war, Dr. Kellet said to Ursula, had made many people search for meaning in new places—"Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense of their loss.

Ursula declined, fearing enchantment.

Even if she got the messages, she's probably all "Oh man, Ursula's just having one of those days," which is something I overheard her telling our mother once, just because I was upset that she didn't want to be my maid of honor. Not that it mattered in the end, with the wedding being called off, but it was upsetting nonetheless. I'm so fucking tired.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

All Ursula can come up with is that when people were alone in the voting booth, they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman. The problem wasn't Ursula. It was American society. Of course Ursula harbored plenty of private fears

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin: "One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery.")

He revealed nothing about Ursula's activities and his own work on behalf of Soviet intelligence.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Her absorption was strange, almost rhapsodic. Both Birkin and Ursula were suspended. The little red pistillate flowers had some strange, almost mystic-passionate attraction for her.

And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow. 'One gets the greatest joy of all out of really lovely stockings,' said Ursula. 'One does,' replied Gudrun; 'the greatest joy of all.

Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?' 'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

but bound to be an experience of some sort.' 'Not really,' said Ursula. More likely to be the end of an experience.' Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this. 'Of course,' she said, 'there's that to consider.' This brought the conversation to a close.

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

Declaring that climate is Europe's "most pressing challenge," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has pledged to turn all of Europe into "the first carbon neutral continent in the world.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.