I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker. H. G. Wells optimistic money taken States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs. H. G. Wells hens eggs war 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. H. G. Wells gratitude flower heart Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear. H. G. Wells fear fall ...fact takes no heed of human hopes. H. G. Wells heed humans facts Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being H. G. Wells quality perfection mind IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected. H. G. Wells quality gathering mind Go away. I'm all right. [last words] H. G. Wells last-words going-away lasts I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. H. G. Wells useless-things pain evolution The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall. H. G. Wells wall pain fear An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. H. G. Wells real animal lying The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. H. G. Wells saws clever men It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. H. G. Wells nerves voice suffering It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen. H. G. Wells stolen use doors Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men. H. G. Wells self men mean Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. H. G. Wells hurt littles men The War That Will End War. H. G. Wells ends war He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the H. G. Wells sweat verbs struggle Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing. H. G. Wells eight time men I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. H. G. Wells crowds littles men