Well Quotes

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.