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

• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Soothing
  • Hum

• 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 am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Psychology
  • Observer

• 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've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• 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

• I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Gave Up

• Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Will

• No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Great
  • Future
  • Education

• I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• 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