"Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy."
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"I really do feel like I know myself, and I’m so happy to be by myself and I’m so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don’t know themselves that well."
"The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it."
"It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price."
"Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be."
"If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy."
"I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode."
"He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered."
"You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life."
"I'm never sick when you are well."
"Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change."
"I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted."
"Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there."
"I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young."
"Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God."
"If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased."
"Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'."
"I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger."
"An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just."
"And I'll know my song well before I start singing"