H. G. Wells Quotes

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H. G. Wells

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• Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Know
  • Now
  • Eggs

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Society

• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Power
  • House

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hate
  • Team

• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Responsibility
  • Creativity

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Perception
  • Poor
  • Immigration

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Never
  • Height

• Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Heaven
  • God Is
  • Kingdom

• Someone told me ‘Don’t look back, you’re not going that way’ and those words inspire me, as does the famous quote of Winston Churchill. If you’re going through hell, keep going.

  

  Una Healy
  • Hell
  • Inspire
  • Quote

• I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Life
  • Music
  • Passion

• I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Why

• The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Future
  • Engineer

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell