Updikes Publisher Quotes

#1. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Trust in Him with everything I have even if I have nothing, and right now, that's about all I've got.

K. Weikel

#3. All men make mistakes.

Sophocles

#4. Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Jackie Kennedy

#5. No thought lives in your head rent-free. Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

T. Harv Eker

#6. A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Archibald Primrose

#7. While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#8. Create the vision of the life you want to live first and then go out and live it

Timothy Pina

#9. He listened, and then said simply, "So don't ride the roller coaster. Ride the carousel instead. Some days will be up, some days will be down, but you'll stay steady.

Kasey Mathews

#10. Her calculations have always held the utmost accuracy, but mathematics alone will not be enough to guide her; she must learn to trust in chance and, if need be, in accident.

John Pipkin