Quotes with well-thinking

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1789.

  • Oscar Wilde It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Hazlitt It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lord Henry P. Brougham It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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  • John Andrew Holmes It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Horace Mann It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Michelangelo It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Anna Wickham It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham
     
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  • Arnold Bennett It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mark Twain It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • John Updike It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Carole King It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
    And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
    Source: Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
    Source: Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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