Newness Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Newness Respect
Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer. — John B. Larson Copy Share Image
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the… — Manton S. Eddy Copy Share Image
America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires. — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love. — Dennis Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger… — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
“Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried… — Kurt Eichenwald Copy Share Image
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
