We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it. H. G. Wells cyclingflowerexercise Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits. H. G. Wells heartmenbeach We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. H. G. Wells spaceevilmen I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation. H. G. Wells limitsdawnexpectations This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order. H. G. Wells ageplayorder Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. H. G. Wells ruinscavesdisease I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. H. G. Wells journalistartistart Hunger makes a fool of a man. H. G. Wells hungerfoolmen The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. H. G. Wells eggsnursepeople Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. H. G. Wells shiningmenbook While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. H. G. Wells cheerfulliteraturemen When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract. H. G. Wells bedtwentiesmen They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions. H. G. Wells lustdreammen Chess is a curse upon a man. H. G. Wells cursechessmen Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. H. G. Wells vividworldfirsts It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity. H. G. Wells naturewhiteforests Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. H. G. Wells chaosnosesfaces The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster. H. G. Wells victoryshadowsweet We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. H. G. Wells graduationinspirationalfunny If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you. H. G. Wells ableatheistheaven
