Top 100 Well That Quotes
#1. Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.
Sherrod Brown
#2. Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest.
Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard one.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#3. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E.Lee
#4. It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.
Paul Reiser
#5. I shook to my core, my soul curving around her protectively as my mind strove to determine the logical calculation that could make her mine. I wanted to be hers as much - more - than I wanted to possess her, when I knew damned well that neither was possible.
Tammara Webber
#6. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii."
"Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.
Laurence Yep
#8. If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi
#9. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.
Jill Shalvis
#10. If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull.
Joe Teti
#11. He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.
Harry Mulisch
#12. And without knowing exactly what his sin was he felt full well that living was not a sufficient atonement for it or that this atonement was in itself a sin, calling for more atonement, and so on, as if there could be anything but life, for the living.
Samuel Beckett
#13. What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be devastating? Is it pride, stubbornness, a yearning for adventure, or just a reckless disregard of reality?
Stan Turner
#14. Richard at once declared that we must be content with that and drop the subject. I agreed with Richard. All's well that ends well. What say you, O.G?
Gaston Leroux
#15. There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.
Kelly Barnhill
#16. Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.
Terry Zwigoff
#17. Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
Alexander Payne
#18. I have trouble voicing my thoughts ... I can't communicate very well that way.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#19. Atheists are not the enemy; the real enemy knows Jesus Christ. Satan and all false prophets know very well that Jesus came from heaven, but still reject him. Matthew 10:36
Felix Wantang
#20. It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders." "Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilizationally.
Iain M. Banks
#21. Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun ...
John Keats
#22. He'd know that I think that ... well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.
Meg Cabot
#23. Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse
#24. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.
Norman Vincent Peale
#25. What the hell?!" Vee shrieked. "Why did you shoot him Rixon?"
"Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me too."
"You can't shoot people just because Patch says to!" Vee said, her eyes wild.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#26. So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
Abigail Van Buren
#27. I am overcome by my own amazing sloth ... Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
Elizabeth Bishop
#28. I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.
Joseph Conrad
#29. 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.
Robert Greene
#30. Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into the highest domes of the zenith and sink many miles below the surface of the earth.
Anna Kavan
#31. Well, that should do it," the man replied. "Oh, and I did put a small camera in your office, just to square things up. It's hidden, so you won't have to worry about somebody spotting it.
Diana Palmer
#32. Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.
Sam Cooke
#34. Well, that feels a little bit like stealin' yer parent's car keys for a joy ride and ending up crashin' it, huh?"
"We kind of hijacked the sun, Russell.
Amy A. Bartol
#35. When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#36. You'd probably marry me just to annoy your father."
He grinned. "Well, that would certainly be a bonus."
"Why don't you like him?" I asked. "He seems all right."
"In five-minute doses," Win muttered.
Gabrielle Zevin
#37. What the hell does it all mean? Does 11:11 really mean anything at all? Well, that simply depends on whether you believe life has meaning in the first place.
Harry Whitewolf
#38. They don't have to all be maidens."
"Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly hand out a questionnaire as regards their experiences in that regard, we'll have to leave it there.
Julia Quinn
#39. I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.
Terry O'Quinn
#40. Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#42. Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti
#43. Well, that's the hell of it, isn't it?" she said, turning away. "You never know, but you have to act anyway, don't you?
Diana Gabaldon
#44. Maybe it really was a spirit," Pen offers.
"Spirits aren't real," he says. "The living invent them to console themselves. If you girls ever see a spirit, you'll know for certain you're alive."
Pen crinkles her nose. "Well that's grim.
Lauren DeStefano
#45. wonderful except when it came to eviscerating chickens. And even that was wonderful in its way, because it was something you did, and did well, that you didn't care to do. So there was a lesson in doing it. And
Philip Roth
#46. In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
Chuck Klosterman
#47. A business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term thinking is a business that's unable to invest in the future. And a business that isn't investing in tomorrow's opportunities and technologies - well, that's a company already in the process of dying.
Reid Hoffman
#48. Remember those old math questions you had in algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project I'm working on.
Andy Weir
#49. If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
Tom Wilkinson
#50. Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. "Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!" he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.
Richard Due
#51. I'd said I didn't always tell the truth, that I didn't handle conflict well, that anger scared me, that I was used to people just disappearing when they were mad.
Sarah Dessen
#52. Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.
Jane Costello
#53. I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
Gore Vidal
#54. Sit down and shut up," said Melody. "You volunteered for this." Happy looked at her. "I did? When?" "When I told you to," said Melody. "Oh, well, that's all right then," said Happy. He sat down.
Simon R. Green
#55. And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!"
"Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad.
Terry Pratchett
#56. It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.
Julian Barnes
#57. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
John Denham
#59. There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars."
Larry The Cable Guy
#60. There's dust on my exercise bike. I sigh, clap my hands, and pull it to the center of the room. I'm out of breath by the time I get it in front of the TV. "Well, that's enough exercise for me," I say to myself and go set up the rest of the room.
Cassie Mae
#61. Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?
Amy Tan
#62. And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that's harmless, isn't it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies ... it's just a word.
Terry Pratchett
#63. Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.
J.M. Coetzee
#64. Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.
William Tyndale
#65. I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me - Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.
I go to a school for spies.
Ally Carter
#66. It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
Denene Millner
#67. Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.
Loretta Chase
#68. It doesn't matter how much you have in common with someone, how much you could help them spiritually grow, or even how much you love them. If you can't help feed their most important need then you will always be pouring water into a well that can't stay full on its own.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
Vin Diesel
#70. Well, that's that, then. We're all going to die. Charming.
Mira Grant
#71. All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
J. B. Smoove
#72. There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#73. I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon."
"Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.
Rob Vollmar
#74. My gut says to go with you and it's yet to fail me." He smiled, brushing off my concerns so easily. Well that's because your gut is probably made up of rock hard abs; they wouldn't fail anyone.
R.S. Grey
#75. You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Ally Carter
#76. Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing expedition to find a boyfriend. And a "great catch," well, that seemed to be begging for heartache.
Julie Buxbaum
#77. You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.
Hank Aaron
#78. To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.
C.S. Lewis
#79. She's always been the one to tell me about her bedroom adventures, not the other way around. To put it plainly, I have no problem talking about other people having sex, but talking about me having sex, well, that's a whole other kettle of uncomfortable collar fiddling.
L. H. Cosway
#80. Are you calling about the ad?"
"Ad?"
"For the gently used Bentley for sale. It has zero miles!"
Well, that explained the backward driving.
Macrieve & Nix
Kresley Cole
#81. To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.
Steve Harvey
#82. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
Rachel Van Dyken
#83. Well that woman has crept into my mind. Somehow, she has stolen my very sanity because now I want her hands on me. I begged for her to touch me until I, too, lost myself in the beauty of a fantasy- a fantasy I still don't fully understand.
Ella Frank
#84. Every night before I get my one hour of sleep, I have the same thought: "Well, that's a wrap on another day of acting like I know what I'm doing." I wish I were exaggerating, but I'm not. Most of the time, I feel entirely unqualified to be a parent. I call these times being awake.
Jim Gaffigan
#85. The dogsman said, 'Tread lightly. Your master's in a vicious mood.' Well, that was order restored.
C.S. Pacat
#86. There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
Alan Alda
#87. There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy ... Well that's a myth.
Pauline Marois
#88. And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Jacqueline Woodson
#90. I don't think anyone should get married just to please their parents and get to wear a nice dress, Ruby.'
'Well, that's why most people I know get married!'
'Well, maybe that's why one in three marriages end in divorce!
Helen Chandler
#91. Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.
Chuck Klosterman
#92. To love someone is to give her or him your entire heart and she or he should give that love back to you 100% as well. That's called two way street relationship. Happy Valentines Day 2017.
Euginia Herlihy
#93. When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
Jim Parsons
#95. A few seconds later, her reply came in.
WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change.
Me: Nana, do U know what WTF means??
Her: Of course silly, it means well, that's fantastic.
Gena Showalter
#96. They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
David Sedaris
#97. When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it ...
Walker Evans
#98. Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well - that would be the end of the universe.
Anonymous
#99. It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
Christine Baranski
#100. You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.
Dexter Holland
