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H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 13

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Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Going Away, Lasts, Last Words

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.

Mind, Quality, Gathering

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.

World, States, Mankind

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Year of Prophesying”, p.70, Read Books Ltd

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

Gratitude, Flower, Heart

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

War, World, Growing

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.7531, e-artnow

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Men, Cheerful, Literature

H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

Time, Men, Eight

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.6, Sparklesoup LLC

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

Ideas, Political, Brain

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.15078, Delphi Classics

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

Perfection, Mind, Quality

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.31, H. G. Wells

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

Despair, Limits, Miserable

H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.60, H. G. Wells

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

People, Humanity, Common

H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.205, Everyman's Library

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

Distance, May, Apocalypse

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Door in the Wall: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

Clouds, Light, Wind

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

Men, Political, Liberty

H. G. Wells (1933). “Shape Things Come”

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

Wine, World, Realizing

It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

Reality, Feet, Cinema

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

Twilight, Past, Dawn

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

Philosophy, Home, Space

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

Men, Law, Weakness

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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.

Clever, Mistake, Men

H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.12, Everyman's Library

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

Life, Lying, Risk

"Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", 1936.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

Mean, Mind, Suggestions

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.

Glimpse, World, Leisure

H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.97, Diderot Publishing

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Men, Doubt, Invisibility

H. G. Wells (2012). “The Invisible Man”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

World, Vivid, Firsts

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.23, H. G. Wells

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