It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.
I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.
This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
They should be working, and there isn't enough work.
For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of 'wrongness' or dan...
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded...
The water can only flow thanks to the well.
It is a bad well that you have to fill with water.
When things go well it is easy to advise.
Small wells are better to quench your thirst.
A lawyer and a wagon wheel must be well greased.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Always be well dressed, even when begging.
One does not look for good when he is well.
Cow of many -- well milked and badly fed.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.
The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of self-interest as the rule of his actions, without understanding the science which puts it to use; an...
[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...
She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but...