H. G. Wells Quotes
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
Quotes to Explore
-
I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
-
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
-
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
-
Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
-
I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
-
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
-
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
-
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
-
I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
-
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
-
Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
-
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
-
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
-
Men are what their mothers made them.
-
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
-
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
-
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
-
About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
-
I carry a lot of muscle easily.
-
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
-
I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.
-
I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
-
For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.
-
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
