Top 100 The Wells Quotes
#1. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Isaiah
#2. In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.
Josh Fox
#3. We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?
Adam Hochschild
#4. Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.
Oswald Chambers
#5. I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
Tobias Wolff
#6. And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time
" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
#7. We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
Winston Churchill
#8. Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.
Tim Cope
#9. A writer will seal his own coffin,
And the interests of readers will soften,
If the author insists
On the usual twists,
And he goes to the Wells once too often.
Mark Grenier
#10. One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#11. And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.
Charles Baudelaire
#12. Like the wells and springs of their island, like Hiro's clouds, the fountains of their eyes were empty now, dry as the cracked soil. Or perhaps their tears flowed inward, scalding their young hearts.
Edward Stanton
#13. tears swell
in the wells
of my eyes.
love is a
constant
side effect
of mine.
K.Y. Robinson
#14. For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Gardiner Spring
#16. she was one of the lights of the world - one of the wells of truth, whose springs are fed by the rains on the eternal hills.
George MacDonald
#17. If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.
Moncure D. Conway
#18. But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
Ann Voskamp
#19. In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
Anne Lamott
#21. And with all of the enemy's citizens living at the bottom of huge gravity wells, we don't even have to aim particularly well. Einstein was right. We will be fighting the next war with rocks. But the Belt has rocks that will turn the surface of Mars into a molten sea.
James S.A. Corey
#22. Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
Sylvia Earle
#24. I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.
Tom Monaghan
#25. Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
George Washington
#26. We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.
Stephen King
#27. And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
Dar Williams
#28. Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.
Paul Shannon
#29. The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
Sigmund Freud
#30. I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
Eudora Welty
#31. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly Parton
#33. There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
W.G. Sebald
#35. I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
Roger Nash Baldwin
#36. Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.
Gabriel Cousens
#37. What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
Jose Mujica
#38. The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Stella Benson
#39. A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
David Cronenberg
#41. Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.
Jane Ace
#42. We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Henry David Thoreau
#43. Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
Vaclav Smil
#44. Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television
bar none!
Al Michaels
#45. I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes.
Richard Kadrey
#46. For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
William Osler
#47. Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
Angelus Silesius
#48. [David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
Linus Pauling
#49. I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
#50. Not only are the voices in your head real, but they're accurate as well.
Doug Stanhope
#51. Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.
Richard Stanley
#52. Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place.
Henry Fielding
#53. The BEST representation of Source Energy that you will ever find in your physical format is inexpressible. It's that feeling of love and appreciation that just WELLS up within you, that is so sensational that you can hardly find words for it. That's the true ESSENCE of who you are.
Esther Hicks
#54. It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction.
William Gibson
#55. There are many wells today, but they are dry. There are many hungry souls today that are empty. But let us come to Jesus and take Him at His Word and we will find wells of salvation, and be able to draw waters out of the well of salvation, for Jesus is that well.
William J. Seymour
#56. Those that just talk are also the ones that say, 'Why don't they do this?' and 'Why don't they do that?' Well, they're they. We're all they, and we can all do a little something.
Betty White
#57. One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.
Henri Nouwen
#58. Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.
Des MacHale
#59. I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
John Frusciante
#60. The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
Kofi Annan
#61. She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.
Lyle Lovett
#62. And I am going to have another opportunity. I am going to have a week-end with him at his home in Easton, a week-end with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe.
Charlie Chaplin
#63. Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
John Travolta
#64. Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
Richard Livingstone
#65. One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.
Richard Diebenkorn
#66. It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
Peter Garrett
#67. But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that ... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.
Lou Reed
#68. I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!
Justine Larbalestier
#69. Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
Agatha Christie
#70. Through windows,
in wishing wells,
whispering in the wind...
that's where I find you.
Jessica Kristie
#71. Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
Adrienne Rich
#72. Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?
Cornel West
#74. Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.
Mason Cooley
#75. We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.
Ron Paul
#76. Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Elbert Hubbard
#77. 15. "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
Richard Evelyn Byrd
#78. I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.
J.L. Austin
#79. Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.
Kanye West
#80. The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
Rene Auberjonois
#81. Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But I dont think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.
Julian Barnes
#82. Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.
Craig Stadler
#83. Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.
Laura Berman
#84. I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."
Bill Hader
#85. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.
Poe Ballantine
#86. The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
George Walter
#87. India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.
Carlos Ghosn
#88. For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.
Lorin Stein
#89. Alexa sniffled. "Oh my God, he gave her an airport scene! Just like in the books I read and all those movies. He followed her to an airport and confessed his love before she could board the plane!"
Nick laughed. "Sweetheart, she wasn't boarding the plane."
"Close enough.
Jennifer Probst
#90. The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. I think about the things I control and do them well.
Landon Donovan
#92. If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
Jean De La Fontaine
#93. I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.
Tristan Jones
#94. Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.
Max Anders
#96. It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Bernard Holland
#97. Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
James Purdy
#98. Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well
Pharrell Williams
#99. I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Karl Kraus
#100. However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
Ernest Bramah
