Quotes with well-fitted

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1350.

  • V. S. Pritchett Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Nicholas Boileau What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Louis Dudek What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
    Louis Dudek
     
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
    John McEnroe
     
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  • Paul Auster What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    Source: The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Louis XIV Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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