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Life Quotes by H.G. Wells
- The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
- Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
- The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception…
- Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
- Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
- To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is…
- Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
- I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence…
- ... life falls into place only with God.
- Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
- There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will…
- If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
- The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
- Our true nationality is mankind.
- We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die.…
- Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
- once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
- 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.
- Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
- By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.…
- Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process…
- Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw.…
- 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…
- A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
- Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle