Lasts Quotes by H. G. Wells

10 Lasts quotes by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells distills his expansive imagination into ten brief musings on endurance. These snippets capture his speculative mind, hinting at how his stories aim to outlast the ages.

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger…

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Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the…

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the…

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous…

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…

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The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while…

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought…

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Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

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... life falls into place only with God.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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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…

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

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“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…

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

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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…

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We must end war before war ends us.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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