H. G. Wells Quotes

Every man shall be entitled to a sound and objective education and there shall be genuine equality of opportunity. Education shall be a matter of environment as well as of instruction, and everyone shall be entitled to an education untouched by the interests of any party or religion.

H. G. Wells

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Job
  • Sleep

• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Day
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Worst

• Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Science

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• The education of the Nazi elite, it turns out, is the education of super-racketeers and gangsters from among the biologically superior. The concept of ‘noblesse oblige’ is transformed into its polar opposite;…

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • Education

• We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

  

  James Harden

• Every man shall be entitled to a sound and objective education and there shall be genuine equality of opportunity. Education shall be a matter of environment as well as of instruction, and everyone shall be entitled to an education untouched by the interests of any party or religion.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Party