H. G. Wells Quotes

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

H. G. Wells

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• I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Moment

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Me

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Deep

• If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Black
  • Eyes

• Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes

• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• ...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Poetry

• To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Breakfast

• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  

  Linus Pauling

• Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Interesting
  • Period

• I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.

  

  Brendan Robinson
  • People

• Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.

  

  John Webster
  • She
  • Eyes

• I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Life
  • Children
  • Movie

• George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• I urge you to work together in promoting a true, worldwide ethical mobilization which, beyond all differences of religious or political convictions, will spread and put into practice a shared ideal of fraternity and solidarity, especially with regard to the poorest and those most excluded.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Work
  • Together
  • True

• With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz
  • Great
  • America
  • Future

• Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

  

  H. G. Wells