Well Quotes

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.