Wells Quotes · Page 107

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

— Philip Sidney

A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.

— Howard Raiffa

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

— Tony Snow

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

— Sigmund Freud

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

— Jim George

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

— William Congreve

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

— John Green

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

— Ted Sizer

[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.

— Andrea Mitchell

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

— FKA twigs

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

— Lawrence Bossidy

“Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.”

— Anonymous

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.

— Washington Irving

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

— Angela Carter

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

— Michael Kors

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim…

— Pablo Neruda

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But…

— Marilyn Manson

See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well…

— David Baldacci

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left…

— Jack Nicholson

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are…

— Anonymous

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The…

— Barbara Pym

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:…

— Brian Eno

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll…

— John C. Maxwell

(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill…

— George Will

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I…

— Richelle Mead

I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath…

— Ethel Merman

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and…

— James Lee Burke

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual…

— Hans Selye

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to…

— Timothy Keller

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass…

— Alexander Hamilton

Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

— Orson Scott Card

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

— Tim Vine

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

— Indira Gandhi

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

— Gore Vidal

"I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

— Douglas Adams

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

— Dennis Prager

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

— Venita VanCaspel