William Hope Hodgson Quotes

#1. However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

#2. By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.

William Hope Hodgson

#3. ...the history of all love is writ with one pen.

William Hope Hodgson

#4. To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

Alfred De Vigny

#5. Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed:
A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet.
It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.

Toba Beta

#6. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus

Gareth F. Baines

#7. I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

William Hope Hodgson

#8. Lord, bless the works of my hands. Let my name be associated with good things. Shield me from persecution and false accusations; guard me against greed, discouragement, and sabotage. I welcome opportunities to grow and mature. Let my actions be in sync with Your will. In Jesus's name, amen.

Cindy Trimm

#9. I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

Evita Peron

#10. All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

J.I. Packer

#11. Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Karl Rove

#12. And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

William Hope Hodgson

#13. When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

James Rollins

#14. I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

William Hope Hodgson

#15. The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

William Hope Hodgson

#16. There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

Hugo Weaving