Quotes of John Updike

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

- John Updike

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“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Without term limits, some remain in office for decades; as a result, their power increases and they feel entitled, and ignore the people they represent; but do not be fooled that term limits would ultimately change representation, for it’s the ignorance of the populace who continue returning the same people to office. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ”

- Audrey Hepburn

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

- Rosamund Hodge

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow