Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

Change, like healing, takes time.

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

A lot of things in history change over time.