Wells Quotes - Page 64

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

Love isn't how well you know someone, it is how they make you feel.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

My love can't be purchased Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Nature did all things well

[Alfred] Kinsey, as you well know, was a complete whacko. Most of his studies have been shown to be false.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

Living well is an art that can be developed.