H. G. Wells

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#armies #becomes #between #blind #command

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#evils #good #our #our world #surely

The past is but the past of a beginning. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#past

If we don't end war, war will end us. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#end #us #will

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#comes #make #sad #sober #sorry

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#bicycle #despair #every #every time #future

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#adapt #ever #imperative #inexorable #now

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#beholder #heart

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#be true #begin #even #great #great number