H. G. Wells Quotes

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Sad

• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Sad

• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Story
  • Sad
  • Relationships

• Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion
  • Sad
  • Being

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Free
  • Faith

• Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Art
  • Man
  • Evil

• Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Wise

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • People
  • Happy
  • Sad

• It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Age
  • Black
  • Sad

• It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Independent
  • Sad
  • Creature

• Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Style
  • Sad
  • Hit

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry