H. G. Wells on dark
H. G. Wells47 quotes“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
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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. WellsH. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WellsH. 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. WellsH. G. Wells The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Zac EfronZac Efron Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
Richard BachRichard Bach I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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