1,285 Quotes About Wells

Today, he’d observed them seize a woman who’d gotten pregnant with an unregistered child. There’d be no chance at lenience. She would be Confined until she gave birth, the child would be placed in the Council’s care, and the mother would be executed. The ship could only support a certain number of lives, and allowing anyone to disrupt the delicate balance would jeopardize the entire race.

I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

Y así, con parsimonia de estalactita, el ser confeccionó el caballete de una delicada osamenta que enseguida quedó encapotada por un ondulante manto de carne, nervios y tendones. Tras el enrejado del esternón asomaron entonces los esponjosos pulmones que lanzaron a través de la cerbatana de la tráquea recién colocada un reguero de vaho, anegando la urna con la tibia novedad de una respiración.

It's a pity they make themselves so unapproachable,' he said. 'It would be curious to know how they live on another planet, we might learn a thing or two.

—El verdadero artista —explicó el cuadro— es siempre un hombre ignorante. Un artista que teoriza sobre su trabajo ya no es un artista sino un crítico.

Ahora sabemos lo suficiente para saber que todavía no sabemos bastante... Pero la hora se acerca de todos modos. Usted no verá la hora. Pero, entre nosotros, ustedes los ricos, los dirigentes políticos con su juego natural de las pasiones, el patriotismo, la religión y todo lo demás han liado bastante las cosas, ¿no es verdad?

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.