#well

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God. ↗

— William Ames

#christ #comes #faithful #god #live

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go. ↗

— James F. Amos

#happen #irrelevant #might #moment #ready

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#always #anything #been #done #dwell

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#chamber #counsel #end #found #haul

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. ↗

— William Baldwin

#character #characters #content #different #directing

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#i #i quit #over #quit #smoking

I've always treated women well. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #treated #well #women