Wells Quotes · Page 175

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

— Henrik Ibsen

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

— John Frankenheimer

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

— Robert Hugh Benson

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

— Jodi Picoult

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

— Sinclair Lewis

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

— David Cook

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

— Lee Child

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

— George Michael

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank…

— Christine O'Donnell

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool…

— Jennifer Armintrout

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after…

— Robert Wyatt

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty…

— Elizabeth Crook

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a…

— Prince Harry

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to…

— Joe Torre

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage…

— John Muir

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to…

— Euripides

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they…

— Carter G. Woodson

As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that…

— Marg Helgenberger

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book…

— Jonathan Kozol

Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the…

— Anthony Marra

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be…

— Steve Jobs

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone…

— James McBride

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated,…

— Katherine Dunn

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then…

— William Goldman

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,…

— Indira Gandhi

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data…

— Marjorie Scardino

And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!

— Dan Brown

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

— Dan Fogler

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

— Anonymous

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

— Lindsey Graham

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

— L. Ron Hubbard

When oil goes over $40 a barrel it's almost impossible for America to do well.

— Donald Trump

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well,

— Vince Flynn

I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.

— Evelyn Ashford