Wells Quotes
19806 Wells quotes by 8683 unique authors
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
— Dave Barry
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well,…
— Ethel Barrymore
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
— Roland Barthes
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing,…
— Saint Basil
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom…
— Kathleen Battle
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national…
— Melissa Bean
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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
— Bob Beauprez
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison
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I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to…
— Tony Bennett
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's…
— David Beckham
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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
— Victoria Beckham
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
— Victoria Beckham
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
— Victoria Beckham
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
— Brendan Behan
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