Nice Quotes #18: H.G. Wells

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H.G. Wells


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The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face.

I don't know things. I'm not good enough. I'm not refined. The more you see of me, the more you'll find me out.'
'But I'm going to help you.'
'You'll 'ave to 'elp me a fearful lot.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting.

اذا ذهب العقل والقوة فان الامتنان و الحب الرقيق
بين الانسان و الانسان سبيقيان فى قلب الانسان

But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.

In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

A Cabinet Minister, the responsible head of thar most vital of all departments, wandering alone - grieving - sometimes near audibly lamenting - for a door, for a garden!

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity,