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Wells Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter…
- Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
- I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
- What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something…
- I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love…
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
- We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
- We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth…
- I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink…
- Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen…
- The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
- And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together…
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong