H.G. Wells Quotes

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

She was beginning to recognize it as the feeling of anger taken to such a level it was no longer possible to separate it from any other emotion or thought. In a way, it was a liberating sensation.

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

We're taking you to the hospital, ' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.

Tell me to stop, Aby, and I will...It will be the hardest thing I'll ever do, but if you don't want this, now would be the time to tell me.

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

You are proof alone that I can love.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

I laughed uneasily. “Jeez, you guys make it sound like I was on the brink of death or something. I just fainted.” (Sabina)

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

The Christians of today are so unsubmissive to the leadership of the church, this is unbiblical.

The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as a sensible young man in his position ought to have done.

Thanks God for his blood, and his amazing gift of sending his son. Who has made me strong in Christ Jesus, when heaven and earth pass away, Jesus will be the only thing that remains.

Were Gods love is present there is always hope.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.

The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.

I do not know if hell is hot or cold, or what sort of place hell may be, but this I surely know, that if there is any hell at all it will be badly lit. And it will taste like a train.

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.

He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.