Quotes of John Updike

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It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

- John Updike

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“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

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

- Unknown

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri