Well Quotes

"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty"

Helena Christensen, Model

"When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen"

Stewart Brand, Author

"Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it"

Sela Ward, Actress

"As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities"

Romeo LeBlanc, Politician

"I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs"

William Weld, Politician

"It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting"

Robert Quine, Musician

"Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves"

Junius

"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well"

Horace Walpole, Author

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

George Wald, Scientist

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