Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most of us seldom let the outrageous
part of ourselves out to play.
Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom."
Halloween is one of those exceptions.
While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street,
more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween -
and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Every actual State is corrupt.
Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Well, when you come down to it,
I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
There is no point at which you can say,
"Well, I'm successful now.
I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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