H. G. Wells Quotes, Keys Quotes, Long Quotes

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

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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.

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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

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It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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I hope, or I could not live.

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

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If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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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.

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There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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

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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

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