Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is! — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
