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Quotes from H. G. Wells

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
~ H. G. Wells
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.
~ H. G. Wells
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 done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.
~ H. G. Wells
once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
~ H. G. Wells
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
~ H. G. Wells
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
~ H. G. Wells
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.
~ H. G. Wells
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'
~ H. G. Wells
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
~ H. G. Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
~ H. G. Wells
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
~ H. G. Wells
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
~ H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
~ H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
~ H. G. Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
~ H. G. Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
~ H. G. Wells
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
~ H. G. Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
~ H. G. Wells
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
~ H. G. Wells
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
~ H. G. Wells
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
~ H. G. Wells
The future is the shape of things to come.
~ H. G. Wells
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
~ H. G. Wells