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Wells Quotes by Yann Martel
- To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a…
- I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he…
- I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how…
- The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language,…
- If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those…
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