All Quotes

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
‐‐ John Wooden

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
‐‐ Asa Hutchinson

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
‐‐ V. S. Pritchett

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
‐‐ Citium Zeno

Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit - the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being - in body, mind, and spirit.
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
‐‐ Bryn Terfel

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.
‐‐ Betty White

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.
‐‐ Trent Dilfer

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
‐‐ Mark Thomas

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
‐‐ Robert Bridges

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
‐‐ Joshua Sylvester

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
‐‐ Michael Gove

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
‐‐ Knut Hamsun

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
‐‐ King James I

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
‐‐ Anna Seward

Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.
‐‐ Marya Hornbacher

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it's not my choice.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
‐‐ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
‐‐ Billy Bragg

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
‐‐ Hermann Broch

Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.
‐‐ Ashton Irwin

Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.
‐‐ Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
‐‐ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
‐‐ Benjamin Banneker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.
‐‐ Thomas Dekker

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
‐‐ James Buchan

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
‐‐ Len Wein

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
‐‐ Floyd Abrams

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
‐‐ Alan Bennett

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
‐‐ Candice Bergen

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
‐‐ Robert Trout

Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
‐‐ Anne Bishop

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
‐‐ Daniel Pinkwater

Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach