Well Quotes

"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again"

William James, Philosopher

"Man lives for science as well as bread"

William James, Philosopher

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Life well spent is long"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"He who talks much cannot talk well"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money"

George Savile, Politician

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced"

Sting, Musician

"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"

Anatole France, Novelist

"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"

Anatole France, Novelist

"I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate"

Jessamyn West, Author

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

"He preaches well that lives well"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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