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Beyond Quotes by John Updike
- Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
- I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
- America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is…
More Beyond Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. — Christian Bale
- There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it… — Christian Bale
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find… — Roseanne Barr
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer