Wells Quotes - Page 24

• I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Waiting, Love And Death, Death And Dying

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• It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

  Sandy Koufax

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

  Venus Williams

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love

  Joe Louis

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Done, Action

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Witty, Mean, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.314, e-artnow

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• I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

  Elvis Presley

  Witty, Trying, I Can

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• It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Witty, Money, Peace

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.294, Broadview Press

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• Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

  Douglas Adams

  Witty, Morning, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.130, Del Rey

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• Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Witty, Careers, Remember

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• Yes it's going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Witty, Baby, Together

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• A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

  Montague Burton

  Witty, Business, House

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• That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

  Shmuel Weinberger

  Math, Science, Practice

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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• And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

  Rod Steiger

  Kissing, Nervous, Incredibles

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• I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

  Rod Steiger

  Kissing, Thinking, Track

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• Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.197

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• One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Love, Thinking, Wish

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• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, Golf, Guy

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• Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Writing, Redneck, Thinking

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• After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

  Rita Hayworth

  Girl, Nice, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendship, Memorable, Sisterhood

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• That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Pain, Crazy, Drama

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