H. G. Wells Quotes, Kings Quotes, War Quotes

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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Strength is the outcome of need.

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

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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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