Quotes about well
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“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

Source: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.”

Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Understanding

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him?”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Perfection

“Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Parting, Training

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

World, Education, Girl

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

Robert B. Cialdini (1945) American social psychologist

Source: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

People, Behavior, Success

“But first, are you experienced?
Uh-have you ever been experienced? Well, I have”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Are You Experienced?
Song lyrics, Are You Experienced? (1967)
Context: We’ll hold hands and then we’ll watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea
But first, are you experienced?
Uh-have you ever been experienced? Well, I have

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Time

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: Uh-Oh

Life, Time

“Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Imagination, Water

“Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?'

Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Lie, Sleep

“Percy: Dad-

Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.

Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?

Poseidon: Oh… yes. Good point.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?
Oh... yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!
Source: The Last Olympian

“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

Men, Feeling, Courage, Envy

“In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Heart

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Love, Way, Hurt

“The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.”

Wendy Cope (1945) British writer

Source: Serious Concerns

Hell, Problem

“No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World (6 January 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104210 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister

Money

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

Kiss

“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

Marriage, Happiness, Time, Wedding

“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Books

“Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Nationally syndicated column number 42, Blames All Ills on Earthquake (1923). This became a remark Rogers often used in his public appearances.
Weekly columns

Reading

“If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

Light, Reading

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

--The Sensible Thing”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: The Short Stories

Love, World

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Dreams, Failure, Drink, Time

“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Life

“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

Life, Hope, Feeling

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Life, Personality

“Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Secret of Platform 13

Variant: It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
Source: The Secret of Platform 13

People, Personality

“The best revenge is living well without you.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Revenge

“The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri… well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: ... but Dimitri... well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.
"Stay back," he ordered me. "They aren't laying a hand on you.
Source: Spirit Bound

Lovers, Fight

“Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice. After that… well… he's hungry.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

God

“You’ve got to be kid— Well, crud, what just happened there? I ran out of syl”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

“Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

Fear, Sense, Time

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Madness

“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

Love

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives … Animal products are the main culprit in what is killing us. We can absolutely live better lives without them.”

Dean Ornish (1953) American physician

Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).

People, Understanding, Animals

“He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Time

“Vishous's chest expanded… and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned the cross so it once again hung over Butch's heart. "You did well, cop. Congratulations, true?”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Heart

“The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying”

Darren Shan book Lord Loss

Source: Lord Loss

Girl

“Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Life, Death, Marriage, Birth

“Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Memory, Personality

“Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Men

“Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Age, Way

“And after a while… I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that… well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Life, People, Parting

“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Source: On Peace

Birthday

“Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.”

Beatrix Potter book The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Source: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Tea

“You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
"No."
"Why not, pray tell?"
"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Wedding, Time

“Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

“I'll bet I'm as old as you are."
"I'm older than Sanskrit."
"Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper."
"I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers."
"You win.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

Source: Submission

People, Feeling, Imagination

“Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

William Hazlitt book The Round Table

Source: The Round Table

Life, Art

“Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.”

Gideon Defoe (1975) British writer

Source: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists

People, Religion, Problem, Thinking

“What is done in love is done well.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Love

“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Religion

“Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax?
I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

Fight

“Nothing I like to do pays well.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 141 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'Mattie Ross'

“She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

Life, Color, Idea, Reality

“He seemed only… annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot.
"Yeah, well," he said, "the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically warded apartment through a door that shouldn't really exist, leave a note.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Time

“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”

Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

“De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in.
Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that.
Sure you could.
No I can’t.
Please?
Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Thinking

“How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.”

Carol Ryrie Brink book Caddie Woodlawn

Source: Caddie Woodlawn

Life, Girl, Personality

“Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Sex

“Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions.
Calvin: I came from Sears?
Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Light, Baby

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Pixie
Song lyrics
Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

Life, Sleep

“They’re not dead,” I told the goat. “They both have pulses.” “Oh.” The goat sighed. “Well, give them a few more hours and they’ll probably be dead.” “What is wrong with you?” “Everything,” said the goat.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Dead

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Music, Training

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)

Forgiveness, Dance

“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

“Well, yeah, but she, like, twenty-two. And shelike a four-year-old.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

“Dresden. Am I interrupting something?"

"Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

Baby

“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul

Thinking

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Pain, Feeling

“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Heart

“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

Appearance, Powerful

“I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: Vampires are Forever

Life, Death

“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed.
“Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, Cats, Study

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Love

“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

People

“She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?"
"Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Angels

“Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.'
It was probably important to her.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Way

“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Reading

“Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?"
"Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?"
Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.”

Meg Cabot book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Way

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Thinking

“She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

Personality

“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Hell, Parent

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Home

“But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Source: Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?'
'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

Life, People, Support

“If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Feeling, Change

“You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

World

“for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss, p. 186/187
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: I wonder what Gale made of the incident for a moment and then I push the whole thing out of my mind becouse for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts.

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Quotes about well
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