Top 100 Quotes About Not Well
#1. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.
John Willis Ellis
#2. To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
Thomas More
#3. Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.
Max Stirner
#4. I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
Matthew Rhys
#5. When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well ... it sucks for me.'
Lindsay Hartley
#6. Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know ... I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again".
Carrie Jones
#7. If you're calling her a floozy, I'm by way of being a bit of a floozy myself." "Oh, Jared," said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. "You are not." "Well, I have floozy ambitions.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#9. It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
Stephen Crane
#10. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.
Peter Schutz
#11. Tortoises are not well equipped for cross-country navigation. They need longer legs or shallower ditches.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away
ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings
#13. Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps.
Laszlo Nemes
#15. There could not well be more ink splashed about it, if it had been roofless from its first construction, and the skies had rained, snowed, hailed, and blown ink through the varying seasons of the year.
Charles Dickens
#16. I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
Horton Foote
#17. First Rule of the coven is-"
"We don't talk about the coven?" I joked, but my Fight Club reference was not well received.
C.E. Dimond
#18. Leadership that is not well-grounded in followership - following Jesus - is dangerous to both the church and the world.41
Robert Banks
#19. I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'
Nikki Sixx
#20. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
William Shakespeare
#21. Writing, regardless of the end result - whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed - means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.
Mary Karr
#22. By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.
Silvio Scaglia
#23. I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.
Mickey Drexler
#24. I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain
#25. To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.
Samuel Johnson
#26. Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.
Sean M. Carroll
#27. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As
Mortimer J. Adler
#28. When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
Anna Quindlen
#29. I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
Paolo Sorrentino
#30. There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
Megan Smith
#31. Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.
Pamela Aidan
#32. interconnected vision for sociology as science and sociology as political engagement is not well understood,
David L. Swartz
#33. It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.
Pearl S. Buck
#34. The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.
Homer
#35. A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
Aristotle.
#36. In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
David Bohm
#37. This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#38. I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.
Clive Anderson
#39. I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
T. Boone Pickens
#40. Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man ... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.
John Wycliffe
#41. I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain
#42. The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
Malcolm Turnbull
#43. Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?
David Levithan
#45. I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
Jodie Foster
#46. Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.
Robert Fisk
#47. China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#48. even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies - an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that all is not well in the much-vaunted health-care system.
Theodore Dalrymple
#49. acquaintance noun 1. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend.
Cynical Site
#50. Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.
George Mikes
#51. Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.
Tom Colicchio
#52. Culture for rich people doesn't come till later, it creeps up on them, and it's not well regarded.
Sophie Divry
#54. She didn't believe a word he said about her father but she reckoned, in his loopy mind, he did.
It was sad that this glorious man was obviously not well
Kristen Ashley
#55. There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
Alfred Kinsey
#56. I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
Jeremy Bulloch
#57. The same hands that drop my plates are the hands that hold me when I'm not well.
Jessica E. Paige
#58. When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is "not well-liked by her peers." She is probably also "too aggressive," "not a team player," "a bit political," "can't be trusted," or "difficult.
Sheryl Sandberg
#59. Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.
Andrew Carnegie
#60. One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
Jon Meacham
#61. I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
Charisma Carpenter
#62. I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.
John Lone
#63. I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face."
"Even more reason why I should go," said Will.
Cassandra Clare
#64. Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
Dan Schilling
#65. Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
Tom Stoppard
#66. Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.
Ted Koppel
#67. We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.
Robert Winston
#68. I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
Brooke Burke
#70. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.
Beau Brummell
#71. No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
Fisher Ames
#72. Kid, you had a rough day. Everyone has them. And when you do - do what I do - you ask yourself: Anybody's life better because of what I did today? If the answer's yes . . . then stop your whining. If not, well, do better tomorrow.
Lodro Rinzler
#73. I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.
John S. Hall
#74. Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.
Alcaeus
#76. Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Grace Slick
#77. To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.
Rigoberta Menchu
#78. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.
Rudyard Kipling
#79. Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
John Cleese
#80. Upon learning of Cardinal Richelieu's death, Pope Urban VIII is alleged to have said, If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not ... well, he had a successful life.
Henry Kissinger
#81. If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours.
Carole Jelen
#82. Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#83. Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
Ray Dalio
#84. The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.
Harshit Walia
#85. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.
Rick Yancey
#86. Staring at the plaster death figures in the museum window, she wondered what they had been thinking as they curled up to die in the ashes. Probably not: Well, we're Romans! We shouldn't complain!
Rick Riordan
#87. My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
Ethel Merman
#88. When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington
#89. The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
Thomas More
#90. That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Max Muller
#92. I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
George Soros
#93. A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
R. Kent Hughes
#94. If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld
#95. For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.
David Foster Wallace
#96. I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.
Simone Elkeles
#97. My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,
Marcel Proust
#98. Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
Peter McWilliams
#99. I can juggle, not well ... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.
Rich Sommer
#100. A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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