Well Quotes

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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.

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.

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.