"The heart prefers to move against the grain……" — John Updike
"The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Circumstance Quotes
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
— Neil Armstrong
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We…
— Cate Blanchett
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in.…
— Jeb Bush
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common…
— John C. Maxwell
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
— Charles Francis Richter
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The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the…
— Kyle Cease
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
— Seneca the Younger
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
— Theodore Roethke
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