John Updike Quotes

But the fast lane too gets to be a rut.

John Updike

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• If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • History
  • You
  • Know

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Years
  • Down
  • Now

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

  

  Dan Hill
  • War
  • Bike
  • Speed

• Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Evil

• I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Hate
  • Need
  • Clothes

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • City
  • Feel

• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Against
  • Advance
  • Liberation

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Work
  • Nice

• Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Perfume
  • Crushed
  • Tread

• Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Conduct
  • Nonviolence
  • Cowardice

• People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

  

  Nikki Glaser
  • Understand
  • Ignorant
  • Insensitive

• Programs like TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, formerly known as AFDC) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. In effect, they create, as we have seen, future welfare recipients. Or tax spenders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Future

• Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Pink

• But the fast lane too gets to be a rut.

  

  John Updike