"And I have by me, for my comfort,……" — H.G. Wells
"And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men."
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294 Quotes by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells has 294 quotes on this site.
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut…
— K.J. Parker
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The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to…
— Jamais Cascio
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we…
— William Gaddis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day…
— Ivan Goncharov
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But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in…
— Walker Percy
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Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
— Billy Sunday
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