Contemplating Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplating Destined Doe Inspirational Overwhelmed Time
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
If you're too focused on the future, you're not focused enough on the task at hand. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
He who doesn't modernize himself doesn't live the present and will not live the future. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
He who is trapped in the past can never provide a future for himself / for others. — Vincent Teoh Copy Share Image
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible. But there's another way. There are stories ... And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other--maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd… — John Green Copy Share
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 Image
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 Image
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 has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour… — 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 democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
![“[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.” quote by H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/699/h-g-wells-1122_altars_a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church_158550.jpg)
