Well Quotes

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world"

Woodrow Wilson

"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar"

Francis Crick, Scientist

"A thing well done is worth doing"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children"

Alain Delon, Actor

"I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways"

Ernst Mayr, Scientist

"It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"

Neil Innes, Writer

"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair"

Robin Day, Journalist

"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all"

Adrian Lyne, Director

"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Success is not just about the physical aspect; it's a mental game as well"

William Bonac, Athlete

"I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart"

Eduardo Saverin, Entrepreneur

"Sports bring people with each other in a manner that nothing else can. They unify us, they inspire us, as well as they offer us something to believe in"

Ben Mintz, Businessman

"Post-war British politics has seen a gradual shift from ideology to pragmatism, reflecting broader social and cultural changes, as well as the influence of key figures who have navigated this evolving landscape with varying degrees of success"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"Sailing is a sport that requires not only physical strength, but mental agility and strategic thinking as well"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Politician

"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports"

Bernice Weissbourd

"Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game"

Jason Williams, Athlete

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