Well Quotes

"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

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"

William Shakespeare, 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

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"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

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Plato, Philosopher

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"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

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"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

"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

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

Jane Austen, Writer

"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

"This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"It is better to travel well than to arrive"

Buddha, Leader

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence"

George Washington, President

"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me"

Tom Jones, Musician

"I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere"

Kim Novak, Actress

"If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years"

George Peppard, Actor

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

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