Well Quotes

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.