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World Quotes by John Updike
- You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
- 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…
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
- It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from…
- 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…
- It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
- The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
- The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex…
- An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
- The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
- How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
- We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know…
- You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay,…
- And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I…
- Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.
- A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
- Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach