Well Quotes

"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl"

William Cowper, Poet

"True character arises from a deeper well than religion"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

"One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"It is not well to make great changes in old age"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look""

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well"

John Deacon, Musician

"I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"It is well to think well; it is divine to act well"

Horace Mann, Educator

"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works"

William Morris, Designer

"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it"

Robert E. Lee, General

"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God"

Robert E. Lee, General

"But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them"

Francesco Guicciardini, Historian

"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die"

Joaquin Andujar, Athlete

"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world"

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"I do some broadcasting and speaking as well"

Chuck Daly, Coach

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