H.G. Wells Quotes
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.
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.
…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.
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.
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
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.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
We're taking you to the hospital, ' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you
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.
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.
Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.
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.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
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.
It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.
She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.
Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?
People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
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 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
And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.
