Top 100 Quotes About The Well
#1. We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.
Oliver Heaviside
#2. Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an aspiration without the likelihood of fulfilment.
Theodore Dalrymple
#4. The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
Plutarch
#5. There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong
#6. What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.
J. Vernon McGee
#7. If ours souls are thirsty, we can draw freely, livng water from the well of salvation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.
Bernard Hopkins
#9. For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
Epictetus
#10. God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.
Max Anders
#11. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
Hank Ballard
#12. But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
Paul Farmer
#13. Time to face the well-groomed and empty-minded masses." "All young in any culture tend to be empty-minded," I pointed out. "I suspect" we were. "We were probably happier then.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#14. The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.
Diosdado Macapagal
#15. The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
#16. He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#17. The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon.
Joseph Conrad
#18. He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian
#19. One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
Leon Brown
#20. The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
#21. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.
Martin Amis
#22. The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. [T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all ... are essential to the well-being of a family.
Samuel Adams
#24. That's where spiritual warfare begins - leaving our own methods of filling our gaping holes at the well and allowing Jesus to fill every thirsty, needy place with His Living Water.
Mary E. DeMuth
#25. Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
William Stafford
#27. It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Andre Gide
#28. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville
#29. I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fought.
Peggy Noonan
#30. The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.
Daniel Kraft
#31. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
John Sununu
#32. Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#33. If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.
Dalai Lama
#34. If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity
Gordon B. Hinckley
#35. Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.
Samuel Woodworth
#36. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
Richard Rogers
#37. I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
Maidie Norman
#38. It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair
#39. My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.
Pauline Oliveros
#40. Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions.
Lisa Randall
#41. The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbors.
Terry Pratchett
#42. I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
Richard Russo
#43. The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.
Vilfredo Pareto
#44. I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
Donna VanLiere
#45. Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
P. J. O'Rourke
#46. But now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.
Christopher Hitchens
#47. Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.
Konosuke Matsushita
#48. I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.
Larry David
#49. My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.
Cliff Curtis
#50. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?
Ray Bradbury
#51. The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
Horace
#52. 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
#53. Every tyranny imaginable is possible when prefaced by the notion that it is for the well-being of the populace.
Steven Erikson
#54. For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
Jessica Lange
#55. It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#56. Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#58. It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?
Jess Margera
#59. (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.
Walter E. Williams
#60. It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it ... constantly go to the well ... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins
Peter O'Toole
#61. Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.
Agatha Christie
#62. Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.
Dennis McNally
#63. I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#64. The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
Baha'u'llah
#65. The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.
Walden Bello
#66. When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.
T.F. Hodge
#67. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.
Albert Einstein
#69. But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.
Sharon Shinn
#70. Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.
Wildbow
#72. Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
Pearl Zhu
#73. We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.
Joseph Mailman
#74. We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.
Magic Johnson
#75. John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
Ted Turner
#76. If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.
Dalai Lama XIV
#77. You're beautiful he whispered as he scattered kisses along the incision line and over to her bellybutton. When he heard her release the breath she'd been holding, he slipped his tongue inside the well of her navel. He heard her gasp again, but this time in a different way, an excited way.
M. Leighton
#78. The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And
Malcolm X
#79. I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.
Brenda Lee
#80. I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!
C. G. Jung
#81. Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
Ehud Olmert
#82. Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
Phyllis Bottome
#83. We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
Thomas Berry
#84. The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.
Al Gore
#85. The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
Catharine Beecher
#86. What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#87. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
E.F. Schumacher
#88. Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
Brandon Sanderson
#89. We must have a blueprint not only for a guided economy but for a social order based on justice and ensuring the well-being of the people.
Sukarno
#90. The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him.
Deepti Menon
#91. The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.
James Cash Penney
#92. None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Benjamin Franklin
#93. he plucked out his eye and threw it into the well, then drank from its waters. He
Oliver Laine
#94. Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
Hjalmar Schacht
#95. But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.
Virginia Woolf
#96. Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Karen DeCrow
#97. God is concerned with the heart - the well-spring of life (Proverbs 4:23). Parents tend to focus on the externals of behavior rather than the internal overflow of the heart.
Tedd Tripp
#98. If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#99. After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You
J.K. Rowling
#100. To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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