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Wells Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
- Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of…
- I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an…
- My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
- But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What…
- Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
- Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but…
- The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence…
- We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
- Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
- Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,…
- Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a…
- what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial,…
- salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the…
- I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember…
- Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays,…
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