Well Quotes

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.