H.G. Wells Quotes
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.
...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.
Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...
(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…
This isn't a war, " said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
It is love and reason, ' I said, 'fleeing from all the madness of war.
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A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.
We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense.
This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.
See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.
Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.
When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.
The very air they breathed was almost a juice.
It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice
Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.
It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver
Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver
It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.
Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.
My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.
A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.
I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.
…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.
What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?
Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.
If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.
His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someonehe knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?
