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Him Quotes by John Updike
- Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
- My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to…
- ...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes…
- ...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if…
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
- It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense…
- An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover…
- Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi