Quotes with well-meaning

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1547.

  • Gaston Bachelard To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Brent Sexton To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Dickens Tongue: well that's a very good thing when it ain't a woman's.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carlton Cuse Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bill Owens True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Wilder Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • William C. Bryant Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Anais Nin Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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