Wells Quotes · Page 161

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

— Jack Kerouac

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

— Voltaire

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

— Charley Pride

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

— Jonah Lehrer

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

— John Buchan

Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

— Walter Schloss

Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.

— Rickey Henderson

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as…

— Aldous Huxley

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

— Gillian Anderson

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

— Bobby Jones

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed…

— Lauren Oliver

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

— Mindy Kaling

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.

— Alyson Noel

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way…

— Max Lucado

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by…

— Randi Weingarten

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of…

— Jack Kirby

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our…

— Barbra Streisand

If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic…

— James G. March

I've never said this to a girl before." I bit my lip, waiting. "Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to…

— Joan Bauer

“Sometimes, when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer…

— Dwight L. Moody

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced…

— Colin Mochrie

People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I…

— Ray Bradbury

Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like…

— Cassandra Clare

The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the…

— Gregory David Roberts

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards…

— Langston Hughes

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes,…

— Malcolm X

As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too…

— Thomas Jefferson

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

— Ayn Rand

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

— Tanya Tucker

In life, you're along for the ride either way. You might as well make it fun!

— Travis Pastrana

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

— Karl Abraham

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

— Gerald Scarfe

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

— Anonymous

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

— William Devane

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.

— J. Oswald Sanders