Logo
Quote by John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves m

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

Category:
Food
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

Category:
Religion
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

Category:
Art
Author
John Updike
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. – Vaslav Nijinsky

Category:
alone

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke

Category:
alone

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. – Isocrates

Category:
alone

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. Thats the nucleus of the first story in my collection and its also where the title came from for the book. – Paul Kane

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. – Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964

Category:
Environment

When you go to war, both sides lose totally. – Yoko Ono

Category:
War

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Education

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. – Michael Oxley

Category:
Technology