There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- 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
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
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