Quotes with well-nigh

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  • William Arthur Ward A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • David Ogilvy A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Blaise Pascal Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Benny Goodman After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Immanuel Kant All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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