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- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who…
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,…
- Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
- Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
- Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
- Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
- R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,…
- All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
- But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With…
- Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door…
- We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They…
- What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!"…
- The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just…
- Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid…
- Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
- It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that…
- Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony…
- He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he…
- I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford
- You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already…
- In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
- Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the…
- Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong