Wells Quotes - Page 13

• It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was so calm, composed and she was just moving so well.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Beautiful, Moving, Hockey

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• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Love, Inspirational, Affection

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love You, Refuse, Our Lives

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• In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

  Byron Katie

  Beautiful, Mistake, Fall

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• One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Life, Life Is, Live Well

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• I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
  To die upon the hand I love so well

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hands, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Powerful, Flower, Aphrodisiac

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Grief, Alcohol, Reactions

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• Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.185, eBookIt.com

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• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Attitude, Hate

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

  Andre Gide

  Littles, Triumph, Belief

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.34, Routledge

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• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

  Ugo Betti

  Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Character, School

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• In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Life, Success, Eye

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

  J. G. Holland

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

  George Santayana

  Time, Knowing, Eternity

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

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• They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Food, Airports

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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