Quotes about well page 20
“Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.”
George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Source: Advice to Young Musicians
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
“I'm the top of the food chain and well… you're the food.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil
Source: Dance with the Devil
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
“Have you ever seen? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London.”
Lynsay Sands Canadian writer
Source: Tall, Dark & Hungry
“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon
Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Are you a peice of Saran Wrap?
No
Well then why are you acting so clingy?”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: The Clique Ah-mazing Collector's Gift Set
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”
James Stephens book Irish Fairy Tales
Source: Irish Fairy Tales
Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: For Darkness Shows the Stars
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”
Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon
Source: The Ring of Solomon
William Nicholson movie Shadowlands
Source: Shadowlands
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: Gilead
“He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 27
Context: In my folly, afore this time often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should have been well. This stirring was much to be forsaken, but nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therefor, without reason and discretion.
But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said: It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 13
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays
“Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure
Variant translation:
It is very important to give advice to a man to help him mend his ways. It is a compassionate and important duty. However, it is extremely difficult to comprehend how this advice should be given. It is easy to recognise the good and bad points in others. Generally it is considered a kindness in helping people with things they hate or find difficult to say. However, one impracticality is that if people do not take in this advice they will think that there is nothing they should change. The same applies when we try to create shame in others by speaking badly of them. It seems outwardly that we are just complaining about them. One must get to know the person in question. Keep after him and get him to put his trust in you. Find out what interests he has. When you write to him or before you part company, you should express concrete examples of your own faults and get him to recall to mind whether or not he has the same problems. Also positively praise his qualities. It is important that he takes in your comments like a man thirsting for water. It is difficult to give such advice. We cannot easily correct our defects and weak points as they are dyed deeply within us. I have had bitter experience of this.
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one's word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood.
Context: To give a person one's opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult. To discover the good and bad points of a person is an easy thing, and to give an opinion concerning them is easy, too. For the most part, people think that they are being kind by saying the things that others find distasteful or difficult to say. But if it is not received well, they think that there is nothing more to be done. This is completely worthless. It is the same as bringing shame to a person by slandering him. It is nothing more than getting it off one's chest.
To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one's word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood. Judge the occasion, and determine whether it is better by letter or at the time of leave-taking. Praise his good points and use every device to encourage him, perhaps by talking about one's own faults without touching on his, but so that they will occur to him. Have him receive this in the way that a man would drink water when his throat is dry, and it will be an opinion that will correct faults.
This is extremely difficult. If a person's fault is a habit of some years prior, by and large it won't be remedied. I have had this experience myself. To be intimate with all one's comrades, correcting each other's faults, and being of one mind to be of use to the master is the great compassion of a retainer. By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?
“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet