"Leaders should lead as far as they can……" — H.G. Wells
"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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H.G. Wells
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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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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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