H. G. Wells Quotes

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

H. G. Wells

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• I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • Money
  • Road
  • Doing

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Idea

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Recognize
  • Compromise

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Weird
  • Body

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Sun
  • Flower
  • Most

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

  

  Kara Walker
  • American
  • True
  • Soul

• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Gucci

• In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People

• I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Fear

• The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • Path
  • Successful
  • Easier

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Running
  • Question
  • Answers

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser