H. G. Wells Quotes
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
H. G. Wells
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
Zach Braff
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
Abby Wambach
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof
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The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginningAnd sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.
Wallace Stevens
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My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Jared Polis
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
Lisa See
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In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
Paul Auster
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Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, - and, withall, he had so shrewd guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, - that NATURE might have stood up and said, - 'This man is eloquent.'
Laurence Sterne
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
H. G. Wells
