Le Pardon Quotes

Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason ~ Gustave Le Bon

Ged said at last, speaking low, "There is a thing that I fear, Estarriol. I fear it more if you are with me when I go. There in the Hands in the dead end of the inlet I turned upon the shadow, it was within my hands' reach, and I seized it - I tried to seize it. And there was nothing I could hold. I could not defeat it. It fled, I followed. But that may happen again, and yet again. I have no power over the thing. There may be neither death nor triumph to end this quest; nothing to sing of; no end. It may be I must spend my life running from sea to sea and land to land on an endless vain venture, a shadow-quest. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a point, around the age of twenty, 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

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first ... A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts ... Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images. ~ Gustave Le Bon

When he bowed his head to hide his grin, she stiffened. "This is most certainly not amusing."
He looked up, the humor still glittering in his eyes, and spoke one word. "James."
"Pardon me?"
"James Lamont. It's my name. You'll need it if you're to curse me properly. ~ Tamara Hughes

Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera. ~ John Le Carre

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels. ~ Mimi Sheraton

In stressful situations, people often talk about a fight-or-flight response. Which, in my opinion, doesn't give enough credit to the more common reaction of curling up into a little ball. [ ... ] For once, I made the decision to play it cool. Or stupid. Whichever came first.
-"Le Paris!" in How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley (2010), P. 219-220 ~ Sloane Crosley

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears ~ Joseph Hall

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

It's all been rather lovely. ~ John Le Mesurier

It is useless work that darkens the heart. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details. ~ E.L. Sayers

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince. ~ Veronica Henry

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers) ~ Charles De Leusse

Everything in the world is true if you invent it hard enough and love the person it's for! ~ John Le Carre

You don't understand. When I was seven, Mum bought me a rabbit, Mister Fluffy. For two weeks, Dad paid more attention to that rabbit than he did to me. He played with it, he took it on walks, he practically tucked it in at night. And that was a rabbit. Imagine what he's going to be like with a baby." "But after those two weeks, once the novelty wore off, he was back to normal, wasn't he?" "I don't think it was because the novelty wore off. I think it was because he stood on Mister Fluffy." "Pardon? ~ Derek Landy

You are not coming." His voice is suddenly hard.
I step away from him. "Why not?"
"Because you never take your beloved gerbil to a viper's den. ~ Georgia Le Carre

We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely. ~ Gustav Le Bon

Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head! ~ Elle Newmark

If you pardon the things that unfortunate people do, then what of the people killed by his selfish acts? And the people who say he should be the one killed?" ~ Juri ~ Mizu Sahara

There is no kingdom like the forests. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.' ~ Bryan Batt

I thought I was inventing my own lot of imaginary aliens​, and I was only describing the Senoi. It is not only th Captain Davidsons who can be found in the unconscious, if one looks. The quiet people who do not kill each other are there, too. It seems that a great deal is there, the things we most fear (and therefore deny), the things we most need (and therefore deny). I wonder, couldn't we start listening to our dreams, and our children dreams? "Where did you fall to, and what did you discover? ~ Ursula K. Le Guin