H. G. Wells Quotes, Fear Quotes

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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For after the Battle comes quiet.

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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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.

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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

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Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

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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.

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