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Wells Quotes - Page 17

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Earth, Breasts, Wells
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.196, Penguin

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Eli Wallach
Interviews, Wells, Request
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

C. S. Lewis
Long, Admire, Wells
C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.111, HarperCollins UK

He that lives well, is learned enough.

Benjamin Franklin
Enough, Live Well, Wells
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu
Country, Freedom, Wells

Rests always sound well.

Arnold Schoenberg
Music, Sound, Wells

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Aldo Leopold
Land Use, Term, Wells
"A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, p. 224-225, 1949.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill
Blessing, Wells, Ifs
1945 On his defeat in the first post-war general election, quoted in Richard Nixon Memoirs (1978).

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Warren Zevon
Littles, Wells

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Vivienne Westwood
Do It Yourself, Wells

Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then

Tommy Cooper
Doctors, Wells, I Can

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Terry Gilliam
Well Known, Wells, Animator
Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 15, 2000.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Socrates
Life, Live Well, Wells
Crito (quoted by Plato)

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Saint Francis de Sales
Doe, Praying, Wells

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Robert Zemeckis
Isolation, Function, Wells

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Robert Bly
Sacred, Wellspring, Our Lives

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

Richelle Mead
Rose, Might, Wells
Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.332, Penguin

Never leave well enough alone.

Raymond Loewy
Enough, Wells
"Never Leave Well Enough Alone". Book by Raymond Loewy, 1951.

Whatever you do, do it well.

Pittacus of Mytilene
Good Life, Wells
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77,

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Paul McCartney
Enough, Wells, Knows

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

Naomi Wolf
Revolution, Enough, Wells
Naomi Wolf (2012). “Vagina: A New Biography”, p.66, Hachette UK

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Moliere
Speaking Well, Literature, Wells

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it

Mary Midgley
World, Wells
Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.145, Psychology Press

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Mary Douglas
Hierarchy, Environment, Wells

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

Martha Beck
Wells
Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.158, Harmony

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