A Quote by John Updike

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

John Updike

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Adversity Doses More Than Uses

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

Bill Mollison

I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.

Graham Coxon

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linwood Barclay

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Henry Taylor

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

Arthur W. Pink

Sweet are the uses of adversity

William Shakespeare

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Francois Fenelon

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

William Styron

Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

Elaine Morgan

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

Sonia

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.

Bill Dedman

I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

Aretha Franklin

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.

Chris Hadfield

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