Wells Quotes (page 205)

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• together
• waste
• moments

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. Edith Wharton

• rabbit
• wellness
• crazy

Yeah, well, we're all grieving in our own way, obviously. It's just I heard this crazy rumor about your having inherited twenty-two million dollars." He tried to meet her eyes, but she'd turned away, squeezing her thumbs, fists balled. "Crazy, huh? But getting back to this lunch, let's see, Mr. Aldren and whatever his name is, Tweedledum, they had steak, right? And Mr. Stoorhuys--" He snapped his fingers. "Rabbit. Half a rabbit, grilled. Or what do you call it? Braised. Jonathan Franzen

• hand
• wellness
• ours

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger Swami Vivekananda

• famous
• wellness
• enough

For I make others say what I cannot say so well,... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them.... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me. Michel de Montaigne

• silence
• country
• wellness

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head itmight just as well have been a snowy day in the country. Doug Coupland

• evening
• knowledge
• education

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than... Christopher Hitchens

• best
• book
• perfect

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. Mark Twain

• him
• pride
• feeling

If sacrificing herself for her husband's sake were to prove the last thing that Jassi ever did willingly for her new master . . . well, then, so be it, however bitter the taste to Carcharos. Pride had always been his substitute for honor, but his pride was so long gone from him that he could barely recall the feel of it. And so be that, too. Peter S. Beagle

• thinking
• words
• wellness

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. Agatha Christie

• men
• wellness
• only

The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it. Voltaire

• mindfulness
• colorful
• reality

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. Isabel Allende

• wellness
• dreadful

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? Khalil Gibran

• art
• wellness
• conversations

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. William Hazlitt

• work
• friends
• look

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve. Morton Feldman

• true
• wellness
• truth

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. Philip Pullman