John Updike Quotes
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?John Updike
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
Ted Deutch -
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling -
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
Ian Thorpe -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank -
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
Victoria Justice -
Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
Jack Keane -
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
Laura Schlessinger -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar -
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu
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What is happening here?Something is going onThat's not quite clear.Somebody turn on the light,We're gonna have a party.It's starting tonight.Oh, what a feeling!When we're dancing on the ceiling.
Lionel Richie -
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
Dennis Franz -
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Martin Van Buren -
God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.
G. Campbell Morgan -
I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.
Dalai Lama -
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?
John Updike