Well Quotes

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.