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Wells Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to…
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
- Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a…
- When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
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