Well Quotes

"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world"

"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs"

John Surtees, Athlete

"Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different"

Tom Sizemore, Actor

"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events"

Thomas Lynch, Politician

"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case"

Norman Lear, Producer

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured"

Origen, Theologian

"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family"

Martha Griffiths, Politician

"It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well"

Rich Lowry, Editor

"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done"

Len Dawson, Athlete

"I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well"

Joe Gibbs, Coach

"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3"

Ian McDiarmid, Actor

"I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well"

Rudolf Hiferding

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse"

Robin Cousins, Athlete

"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers"

George Thorogood, Musician

"San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else"

James Stewart, Actor

"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid"

Rob Corddry, Comedian

"The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being"

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

"I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time"

Peter Mayhew, Actor

"But you can't really know your audiences so well"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

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