Urras Quotes & Sayings

Dreams can lie, your Grace. — George R R Martin

In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job. — Neal A. Maxwell

If George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it. — Jean Edward Smith

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead. — Terry Goodkind

Power came from the rituals, not from the gods. — Neil Gaiman

No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise. — Zaman Ali

I never thought before," said Tirin unruffled, "of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, 'Look there's the Moon.' Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth."
"Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned.
"In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin. — Ursula K. Le Guin

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp.
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He wasn't quite sure he was ready to publish. There was something not quite right, something that needed a little refining. As he had been working ten years on the theory, it wouldn't hurt to take a little longer, to get it polished perfectly smooth. The little something not quite right kept looking wronger. A little flaw in the reasoning. A big flaw. A crack right through the foundations...The night before he left Anarres he had burned every paper he had on the General Theory. He had come to Urras with nothing. For half a year he had, in their terms, been bluffing them.

Or had he been bluffing himself? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature, - in the way that Chess represents war, - with Governor Penn a game-piece in the form of the King. — Thomas Pynchon

two children of her own, and about to head into the unknown world of '40', writing is her new passion. — L. Calell

Live each day with graceful gratitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect. — Manmohan Singh

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man — Nelson Mandela

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them. — Jessica Alba

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work
his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy
and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe. — Ursula K. Le Guin