We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

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

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

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.

Reject sin, seek righteousness.

This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.

I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!