H. G. Wells Quotes
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
H. G. Wells
Quotes to Explore
-
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan
-
It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
Tamron Hall
-
I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
Zubin Mehta
-
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
-
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
-
...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
Randall Jarrell
-
To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
W. Somerset Maugham
-
I don't regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn't have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.
Cole Sprouse
-
Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.
Robert H. Schuller
-
Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
-
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
Kate Morton
-
The man who shot Liberty Valance,He was the bravest of them all.
Hal David
-
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
H. G. Wells
