John Updike Quotes

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Done
  • Medical
  • Surgery

• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • World
  • Support
  • Myself

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Look

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Actors
  • Blow

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Men
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

  

  John Updike
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