Well Quotes

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

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

George Washington, President

"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

"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

"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

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"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

"Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"It is better to travel well than to arrive"

Buddha, Leader

"I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much"

Mike Ditka, Coach

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

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

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

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

George Peppard, Actor

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"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

"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"It well becomes a young man to be modest"

Plautus, Playwright

"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

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