Wells Quotes · Page 52

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

— Winston Churchill

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

— Winston Churchill

If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

— R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

— Norah Vincent

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

— Jeb Bush

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

— Cheech Marin

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

— Leigh Steinberg

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough…

— John Steinbeck

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to…

— Marie Corelli

I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being…

— Alan Titchmarsh

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

— Sally Ride

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else…

— Lee Iacocca

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

— Charles Spurgeon

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

— Eli Manning

Mel: Does Bret's girlfriend look anything like me? Murray: A little, around the eyes. Mel: Oh yeah? Big eyes huh? Murray: Well...…

— Kristen Schaal

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it…

— Clement Greenberg

I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around…

— Benjamin Walker

During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief…

— David Letterman

Our party has failed in going in to those places because we've said, well, we don't get instant gratification back. So therefore,…

— Chris Christie

I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark,…

— Conor Oberst

I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how…

— Vincent de Paul

In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can…

— Giles Coren

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is…

— Mary Parker Follett

To [Democrats], government's everything, controlling it, expanding it is everything. And it's not to us [the Republicans]. So they leave nothing to…

— Rush Limbaugh

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not…

— Jeanette Winterson

That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form…

— Charles Babbage

I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to…

— Anita Moorjani

But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,…

— Leo Buscaglia

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'…

— George Mikes

RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled…

— Mark Morford

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

— Anonymous

Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.

— Anonymous

Let your customers say, 'Well, here I am,' while you say, 'There you are!'.

— Ron Kaufman

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

— Ovid

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

— Teddy Sheringham