John Updike Quotes

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

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• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Think

• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • You
  • Just
  • Throw

• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Rest
  • Ideas
  • Better

• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Want
  • Vote

• Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Creative

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Play
  • Film
  • Actress

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Art
  • Night
  • Brother

• Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Free
  • Feel
  • Taxes

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Text
  • Credit
  • Cards

• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  

  David Wolpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Prayer

• Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

  

  John Milton
  • Satan
  • Length
  • Fires

• Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.

  

  Noel Riley Fitch
  • Life
  • Subject
  • Biography

• I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • World
  • Distance

• There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

  

  John Updike