H.G. Wells Quotes
You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.
People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.