H.G. Wells Quotes

To love and be loved is a wonder.

The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

Blood diamonds, she thought. That’s exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

You've made a beast of yourself, - to the beasts you may go.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

You see, " I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.