Well
Definition: In a good or satisfactory way. In good health; free or recovered from illness. Used
to express a range of emotions including surprise, anger, resignation, or relief. A shaft sunk into the
ground to obtain water, oil, or gas. (Of a liquid) rise up to the surface and spill or be about to spill.
Number of Quotes: 5
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not
that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows
is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in
the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean
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