Well Quotes

"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do"

Louise Fletcher, Actress

"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled"

Lloyd Cutler, Lawyer

"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later"

Walter Reisch, Scientist

"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"I think we respond well when we do something well"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me"

Jonathan Harris, Actor

"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens"

Tim Holden, Politician

"Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love"

Jack Bruce, Musician

"I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part"

Roy Haynes, Musician

"Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century"

William Kirby, Scientist

"My greatest competition is, well, me"

R. Kelly, Musician

"Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens"

Peter Krause, Actor

"Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out"

Tom Daschle, Politician

"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well"

Michael Aspel, Journalist

"There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length"

George Mercer Dawson, Scientist

"It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk"

Garry Marshall, Actor

"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find"

Freda Adler, Educator

"Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia"

William Kirby, Scientist

"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well"

Len Deighton, Historian

"Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

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