#well

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. ↗

— Sophocles

#much #one thing #speech #thing #well-timed

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. ↗

— Sophocles

#both #brings #fares #fortune #future

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#dumb #first #i #piano #repressive

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? ↗

— David Sanborn

#guess #i #jazz #little #opposed

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#affects #because #definitely #doing #everyone

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#base #because #been #better #cannot

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.' ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#born #course #everyone #few #knows

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#built #easy #easy access #exchange #forget