H.G. Wells Quotes

Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.

Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do.

It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.

If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.

Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

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

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

You don't get a life until you make one worth living.

I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship.

Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

I'm the demonslayer. Come and get me.

I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

This blessed gift of smoking!

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

There are no social differences - till women come in.

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.