"Nature refuses to rest." — John Updike
"Nature refuses to rest."
—
John Updike
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
-
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
-
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
-
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
-
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
-
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
-
Without rain, there would be no life.
-
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
-
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
-
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
-
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
-
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
See all 339 quotes by John Updike »
More Nature Quotes
This quote is filed under Nature Quotes,
one of 13,010 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
-
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
-
All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
-
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
— Aristotle
-
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
-
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
-
Nature does nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
-
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
-
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to…
— Aristotle
-
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
— Aristotle
See all 13,010 Nature Quotes »
