Quotes about well
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“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Marriage, Strong

“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Light

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Variant: Sometimes [... ] real love is silent as well as blind.
Source: The Stand

Love

“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“I'm learning all the time."
"Well, you're a scholar.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Learning, Time

“What are you? (Danger)
Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Parting

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Trademarked closing lines in The Writer's Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ <br class="br">Source: Good Poems

Goodbye

“Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: Demon Lord of Karanda

“If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

Anthony Capella (1962) British writer

Source: The Various Flavours Of Coffee

Love, Pleasure, Coffee

“Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.”

Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert

People

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Pleasure, World, Loss

“I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Angels, Selfishness

“The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Reading

“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

People, Feeling, Thinking

“And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell."
- Eve Rosser”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

Hell

“In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Love, Learning

“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Chicago: City on the Make (1951), Chapter 2, ""Are you a Christian?""
Context: [About Chicago:] It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Love, Parting

“I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Thinking

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Life, Thinking, Heart

“So up I got in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad.
And, "One thing there's no getting by --
I've been a wicked girl," said I;
But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Books, Girl, Anger

“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Analects, The Great Learning
Context: The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Family, Knowledge, Heart, Personality

“Well, good news, " Blitzen said. "I found the bag. Bad news… I found the bag.”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

“Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Moms

“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Idea

“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Sense, Learning

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 3
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Time

“life is to be lived. if you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Life, Way, Support

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

Understanding, Evil, Anger

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, Flying

“We’re so screwed. (Cassandra)
Yeah, well, I don’t let anyone screw me until they kiss me, and since there’s not even a snowball’s chance in hell of me kissing that bastard, we’re not screwed. (Wulf)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Hell, Kiss, Chance

“Well, isn’t that interesting. (Bubba)
I ain’t your science experiment, Bubba. I don’t want to be interesting and I definitely don’t want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Science

“(If plan KTB kill the bastard) didn't work, well, gray would resort to Plan B: Operation Oh Sh”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Jewel of Atlantis

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Relentless (1992)

People, Smile

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Moving On

“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Love

“I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.”

Nancy Pearl (1945) American librarian and writer

People

“Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.”

Robert Ludlum book The Bourne Ultimatum

Source: The Bourne Ultimatum

Game, Hell

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Source: The Constitution of the United States of America

People

“If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Fate, People

“Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control,
It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Feeling, Thinking, Loneliness

“I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Learning, Daughters

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990)

History, Beer, Question

“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Life, Hate

“If we could manage any sort of trust again… Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Shadow Heir

Imagination

“Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht.
"Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Sense

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

Sleep, Tree, Time

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

Death

“Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well… I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Dark Days

Future

“Well, that's an evil smile…”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Smile, Evil

“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

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

Source: The Ice Palace and Other Stories

People

“Isabelle snorted, "All the boysgay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."
"You noticed," said Simon.
"I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.
"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Thinking, Parent

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

Source: Summer Rain

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died… They're with me still. They're here…”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Family, Thinking

“If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk… I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

God, Lovers, Drink, Thinking

“I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

People, Passion

“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Happiness, Dreams, Reality

“The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Truth

“But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Water

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden and Other Writings

Behavior, Soul, Parting

“Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Girl, Sister

“Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!”

Fern Michaels (1933) American writer

The Blossom Sisters

“My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.”

Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer

Strong, Water, Heart, Flying

“If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.”

Clive Barker book Cabal

Source: Cabal

Sun

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Gone With the Wind

Hope, Girl, Time, Baby

“Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in response.
"Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrows in response.
"Well, aside from mine, of course," Jace said. "And I'm sure my blood is fan-
Source: City of Glass

“Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Game, Reading

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

Simone Weil book Waiting for God

Source: Waiting for God

Beauty

“Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace?
Simon: I heard that and NO… You've seen him naked?
Clary: Well not entirely but-
Simon: Enough”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Men, Sex, Way, Guy

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

Théophile Gautier book Mademoiselle de Maupin

Source: Mademoiselle de Maupin

Love, Life, Heart, Gratitude

“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”

Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger

Love

“You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite…”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“There was nothing I loved more than teasing Dimitri. Well, aside from maybe kissing him.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Love, Kiss

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

From an interview for Italian television (RAI) (10 March 1986) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106223 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.

Thinking, Personality

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Context: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope, Sense, Hope