Well Quotes

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

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.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.