H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.”
“Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“had it not turned into a misadventure I might never haver written about it”
Source: Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer
“Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.”
“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”
“Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?”
Source: The Salinger Contract
“Had Joseph been released when he pleaded for the Chief Butler to help him, he would have been working for the Butler and NOT for Pharaoh. Joseph would have been waiting on the Butler instead of Egypt waiting on him. We need to learn to trust God, trust the process, and be patient. God's plans are higher and more generous than our own.”
“Had Keirah and her sisters known what was set in motion the day their stones appeared and how personally they would be affected by it, they would have still fought the darkness, still battled for what belonged to them.”
Source: Magnificence
“Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud of its ability to chisel away at his fragile psyche in the years before he decided that he'd had enough off their invasions? And, had Jimi Hendrix not passed way in 1970, would he, too have eventually fallen into decline, first equalled, then eclipsed by the brilliant wave of new guitarists: Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Ronson, who emerged during the early 1970s? In death, Hendrix led by example: in life he could have been left for the dead.”
“Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.”
“Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.”
“Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.”
“Had Martha Foley returned William [James Sidis]'s passion as Margaret [Engemann] did Norbert [Wiener]'s, perhaps the two prodigies would have had more in common in the long run. ... In the life of a prodigy, perhaps more than in the average life, a marriage or a requited love is the greatest single factor that can heal the old childhood wounds. William and Norbert's response to their childhood and teenage rejections and humiliations was to retreat into the painless world of ideas, where successes and satisfactions abounded. A successful love affair could be the key to reentry into the world of feeling, bridging the gap between the cerebral and the emotional lives.”
Source: The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America's Greatest Child Prodigy
“Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.”
“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!”
“Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”
“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”
Source: An History of the Corruptions of Christianity
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
“Had my first building inspector at the job. A gray jay, affectionately known as camp robber, came in his drab uniform of gray and white and black to look things over from his perch on a branch end. The way he kept tilting his head and making those mewing sounds, I'd say he was being downright critical. I welcomed his company just the same.”
“Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...”
“Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Had Newton served on more faculty committees at Cambridge, his first law of motion might have read: A decisionmaking body at rest or in motion tends to stay at rest or in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force.”
Source: Central Banking in Theory and Practice
“Had no computer in College,
but was always in First Class
And was always told about the Class,
but never got to see it
That must give you a clue about where I'm coming from
I set my bar high enough to crawl, walk, run and eventually, fly over.
you're the way out!
iampoetickofi”
“had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.”
“had no need of a guide to learn ignorance”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.”
Source: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus
“Had not enough gone wrong?”
“Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York dealers. So I already knew a great many of the dealers and the artists here. It wasn't cold for me.”
“Had our brains been with us we would have been proud of the people we elected, all in tune with the strings of the heart.”
“Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.”
“Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael”
“Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.”
“Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable
three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.”
Source: Men of Mathematics
“Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“Had President Obama and the Desoto Solar Farm been honest about the dangers it contained, the solar power industry would be distinctly different to what it is today.”
“Had President Obama told the world that the Desoto Solar Farm had gone on fire and what had caused it, many of the subsequent solar fires may have been prevented.”
“Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.”
Source: Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series
“Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.”
“Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can’t see things like the secret commonwealth, it’s because rationality’s vision is limited. The secret commonwealth is there. We can’t see it with rationality any more than we can weigh something with a microscope: it’s the wrong sort of instrument. We need to imagine as well as measure ...”
Source: The Secret Commonwealth
“Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.”
“Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.”
“Had S E X? Sex, you can say it Charlie! Put your big girl panties on and be a grown up, you certainly can’t do it if you can’t even say it.” Bethany winked “And oh my God, what are you waiting for? It’s been over a month. After your five year dry spell, I’d think you’d be ready for some ‘wet weather’.”
Source: Heart of a Soldier
“Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?”
Source: Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus
“Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.”
Source: Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life
“Had she been an old woman who long ago in her youth sang beautifully, one might have said that she had learned to use the diminished nature of her voice to maximum effect, that it was a lesson in how to live with damage, how to make peace with it and use it for what it can do. But she was not an old woman.”
Source: Cold Mountain