Quotes To Live By

“The important thing,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in contemplating the cultural role of speculative fiction and the task of its writer, “is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.”

In doing so, she argued, imaginative storytelling can intercept the inertia of oppressive institutions, perilous social mores, and other stagnations of progress that contract our scope of the possible.

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.” - Mark Twain

“Never mistake motion for action.”ever mistake motion for action.”Ernest Hemingway



“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”  ~P.J. O’Rourke

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

-Albus Dumbledore

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

that struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing. (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)

"We must become the change we want to see."          - Gandhi


Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  - Martin Luther King Jr.


How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol