Well Quotes

"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches"

David Hume, Philosopher

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record"

Joe Baca, Politician

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me"

William Howard Taft, President

"The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer

"Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it"

Serena Williams, Athlete

"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Living well is the best revenge"

George Herbert, Poet

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser"

Plato, Philosopher

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can"

Og Mandino, Author

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness"

Helen Keller, Author

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can"

Jane Austen, Writer

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