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One Quotes by John Updike
- The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
- Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
- The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a…
- 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…
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
- A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so…
- Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we…
- Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death…
- The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step…
- If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same…
- 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,…
- I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
- New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
- The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,…
- The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent…
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
- Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted…
- We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death…
- Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle