Top 100 A Well Quotes
#1. Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#2. In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#3. When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
Dean Ornish
#5. In the meantime, Mary's mother continued to stock her daughter's 'bottom drawer' which she started when Mary was only five years old. When we got engaged the 'drawer' was already well stocked but by the time we got married it was more like a well-endowed wardrobe.
John L. Fear
#7. I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.
Michael Moore
#8. I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!
Faith Hunter
#9. There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#10. I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything ... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba
#11. A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
Thomas Brooks
#12. We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.
George Emil Palade
#13. I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Christopher Lee
#14. While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.
Octave Mirbeau
#15. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
#16. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.
Piper Kerman
#17. But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.'
'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old.
Suzanne Brockmann
#18. The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Seneca.
#19. That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
Ravi Zacharias
#21. It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.
Marisa De Los Santos
#22. A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl Kraus
#24. Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.
David Cook
#25. And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.
Marilynne Robinson
#26. As a Turkish proverb says
it was going to be like digging a well with a needle.
Terry Hayes
#27. Point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture - with its index finger and thumb extended upward - is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears
Dan Brown
#28. Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
J. William Fulbright
#29. They pointed out that the friendship between the two artistes had always been a by-word or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name
P.G. Wodehouse
#30. I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it.
William Kamkwamba
#31. We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
James Stephens
#32. You never find riches on a well trodden path.
Jeffrey Fry
#33. Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.
Ashwin Sanghi
#34. If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.
Peter Thiel
#35. Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope
#36. A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.
James Fitzjames Stephen
#37. In a well-organized world he might have landed on a fire escape, but the fire escapes were unknown in Ankh-Morpork and the flames generally had to leave via the roof.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with buildings, parks, and houses from my imagination.
Catherine George
#39. The stupidity of a well-placed "dude" can really defuse a situation
Chris Lynch
#40. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
Ernest Bramah
#41. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#42. Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.
Joe Posnanski
#43. Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.
Georgette Heyer
#44. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Seneca.
#45. His face was uniquely slapable - a nun would have ached to punch him - while his backside cried out to heaven for a well-placed kick.
Jonathan Stroud
#46. An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.
Anjelica Huston
#47. A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
Thomas Paine
#48. He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.
B.J. Novak
#49. I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
Nick Hornby
#50. As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers
Theodor Adorno
#51. In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.
Lynsi Torres
#52. A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.
John Krasinski
#53. I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.
William Eggleston
#54. I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply as a well-placed word.
Cheryl Anne Gardner
#55. Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
Eoin Colfer
#56. It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#57. Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well.
Sue Monk Kidd
#58. Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.
Lenny Bruce
#59. A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
E. Digby Baltzell
#60. People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.
John Baldoni
#61. There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.
Steven Redhead
#62. Better is a book than a well built house.
Eric Thomas
#63. Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
Robert C. Solomon
#64. It is well known that in an infinite universe everything that can be imagined must exist somewhere, and since many of them are not things that ought to exist in a well-ordered space-time frame they get shoved into a side dimension. This
Terry Pratchett
#65. If she could only find a well-educated, Shakespeare-quoting bad boy who still had a thing for sexy tatoos and maybe a mild leather fetish, she might at least have a shot at avoiding her probable future as a crazy old cat lady.
Kendra Leigh Castle
#66. She was sorry, and rather revolted at his dirty hands, but she laughed in a well-bred way, as though it were nothing unusual to her to watch a man walking in a slow dream.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#67. Their lips clashed like a well choreographed sparring match as each fought to control the man that was just as fiercely kissing back. (WIP - New Beginnings, The Sapphire Tower)
Brenda Cothern
#68. If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
Leo Szilard
#69. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#70. It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
Wislawa Szymborska
#71. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#72. A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
Ray Wise
#73. The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
#74. A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
Andre Siegfried
#75. A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
George R R Martin
#76. In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
Bjarke Ingels
#77. A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.
Lewis Buzbee
#78. I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King's Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?
George R R Martin
#79. He didn't give a shit what Sin did, who she "mated" with, or what she did with her assassin business. But this Lycus fucker was blackmailing her, and that just pissed him off. The sudden image of her naked, beneath a well-muscled body did'nt bother him at all. At. All.
Larissa Ione
#80. A well-trained mind directs circumstance.
Toba Beta
#82. And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove ... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
#83. I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
Alexander The Great
#85. A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?
Jerry Pinto
#86. when we conceive an idea, we don't just look anymore but we see. People without a well defined vision look; men with a focused purpose look and they see.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today).
Richard Wiseman
#88. I was slightly overwrought. Sometimes that happens when you get phone calls saying that your child has tumbled into a well.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#90. Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
William Godwin
#92. As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#93. Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.
Aharon Katzir
#94. A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.
Harry Wong
#95. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)
Jonathan Auxier
#96. I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
Alice McDermott
#97. I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap.
Dean Koontz
#99. I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.
Kyle Kinane
#100. Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.
Tim O'Brien
