A Quote by H. G. Wells

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

H. G. Wells

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Across Anything Little Live Long Mean Men Never Occur Threatened Upset Wars Water

Quote Author

H. G. Wells
English - Author
September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946

You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

Steve Inskeep

Threatened men live long.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

Joseph Chamberlain

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Ron Davies

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Morrie Schwartz

Threatened folk live long.

Walter Scott

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Mitch Albom

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

John F. Kerry

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

Vijay Prashad

For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the facts?

Frances Arnold

If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.