H. G. Wells Quotes

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Village

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Procrastination

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • May

• I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Future

• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Age

• It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Society

• American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • American
  • Black

• Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • World
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