Wells Quotes - Page 48

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I can do accents really well.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.