Authors — Quotes

H.G. Wells Quotes: 8

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
The Time Machine
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
The War of the Worlds
Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done