H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Have you ever… liked anyone for real?” Harvard asked in a voice that started low and sank with every word, until it almost disappeared on the word real.
Aiden didn’t trust himself to speak, so he only nodded.
“What did you say to him?”
“I never said anything to him,” Aiden answered slowly. “But there were things I wanted to say.”
“Like what?” murmured Harvard, then shut his eyes, lashes black silk fans against his cheekbones. “You don’t have to say. Not if it hurts. You don’t have to.”
It hurt, but this would be Aiden’s only chance to say all the things he wanted to say. He wouldn’t get another.
Life always hurt, but Harvard was the only one who could ever make it feel better.
Aiden leaned in toward Harvard as close as he could get, so close that every breath was like a storm in the tiny space between them. The blood beneath his skin seemed like thunder, every faint electric impulse turned to dangerous lightning, and every whisper to a desperate shout.
Aiden whispered: “Listen.”
Source: Striking Distance
“Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.”
Source: Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It
“Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.”
Source: Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It
“Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.”
“Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.”
Source: The Stone Diaries
“Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere, it finally bursts open into this gigantic, gorgeous, fragrant flower that’s ten times bigger than the bud itself. It’s impossible to imagine that such a big beautiful thing could pop out of that tiny little bud. But it does.”
Source: The Magnolia Story
“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?”
Source: The Flatshare
“Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn’t just the loss of one life, it’s the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.”
Source: More Than Just Friends
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.”
“Have you ever lost yourself
In the sunset that washes the sky
Of the day’s garish glory
And paints crimson
In the hour of blush?
Have you ever seen
A poise of the busy life,
where power and wealth lose their pride,
for a human is called by the rosy mystery!
Have you ever seen how the heart floats in the sky,
Gently, gently over the clouds of worry,
Into the westerly where colors splash,
Where poems just begin,
Where lovers get lost in the gaze.
Have you ever seen how sunset
Takes us to the other side of life,
Where despairs die and dreams are born,
For therein lies a lover’s glance,
In the sweetness and hunger
To taste a cup of crimson.”
“Have you ever lost yourself in the sunset that washes the sky
Of the day’s garish glory And paints crimson In the hour of blush?
Have you ever sensed a poise in the busy life,
where power and wealth lose their pride,
for a human is called by the rosy mystery!
Have you ever seen how the heart floats in the sky,
Gently, gently over the clouds of worry,
Into the westerly where colors splash,
Where poems just begin,
Where lovers get lost in the gaze.
Have you ever seen how sunset
Takes us to the other side of life,
Where despairs die, and dreams are born,
For therein lies a lover’s glance,
In the sweetness and hunger
To taste a cup of crimson.”
“Have you ever lost yourself, where you have to find yourself over and over again.?”
“Have you ever loved anyone?"
"You mean besides my mum?"
Luke was dumbfounded as he stared at Jack. He knew his friend's story. "She sold you when you were five."
Jack shrugged. "Doesn't mean I didn't love her. Just means she didn't love me.”
Source: In Bed with the Devil
“Have you ever loved anything?"
"Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.”
Source: The Winter Prince
“Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?”
“Have you ever loved someone so intensely, so entirely ,that it's painful to be apart from them? I'm not talking about being in a long-distance relationship or even a particularly painful case of unrequited love. I'm talking about being in a completely different world from the other person, a world where you can see them and hear them but you can't touch them and they can't see or hear you.”
Source: The Life and Afterlife of Charlie Brackwood
“Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.”
Source: Give It Back
“Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?”
Source: The Road to Hope
“Have you ever loved your murderer
As you were coming back from the dead?”
Source: Birdsongs: Broken Poems for the Brokenhearted
“Have you ever made a commitment for which you felt conviction or passion at the time in which it was made, yet as time went by, you lost interest, lost passion, got distracted, or found something else which would result in a greater reward? If your commitments have wavered, recommit yourself to fulfill your promises and do the right thing.”
“Have you ever made her angry?" If the cop said that he and his wife lived in a state of constant connubial bliss, Andrew decided he'd have full cause to throw a punch.
Max raised an eyebrow. "Sure, I'm human." He slid the phone into the pocket of his suit pants and rose to his feet with a distinctly amused glint in his eyes. "Making up is the fun part, in case you haven't figured that out yet.”
Source: Play of Passion
“Have you ever made her angry?" If the cop said that he and his wife lived in a state of constant connubial bliss, Andrew decided he'd have full cause to throw a punch. Max raised an eyebrow. "Sure, I'm human." He slid the phone into the pocket of his suit pants and rose to his feet with a distinctly amused glint in his eyes. "Making up is the un part, in case you haven't figured that out yet.”
“Have you ever met a dragon that couldn't talk?”
Source: Wickedly Wonderful
“Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?”
“Have you ever met a new person and within seconds forgotten his or her name? It can be embarrassing, can’t it? Many people will laugh, brush it off, and say, “I simply can’t remember names!” But you should take remembering seriously.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Have you ever met a person who experiments with tools just for fun? Screw off small panels, just to see how it was assembled? If you have met any such person, take him very seriously. He may not seem serious to you. You may deem him childish or immature but the truth is, the real wisdom can only be possessed by the people who are not afraid to experiment. These people hold the essence
of life.”
“Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.”
“Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?”
“have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey-”
“Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything."
I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet.”
Source: Magic Bites
“Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?”
Source: Remembrance
“Have you ever missed a person even while they're still next to you? Like you're waiting for their absence someday, so you try desperately to hang on to the moment, so much that you can barely exist in the present with them?”
Source: Icon and Inferno
“Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?”
“Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself.
Truman Capote on Warhol”
Source: Edie: American Girl
“Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“Have you ever noticed,” he said, stirred now by this vision of domestic bliss that was beyond his reach, and shocked earlier that evening to find himself crying in the subway on his way home from a client, “that gay people secrete everything in each other’s presence but tears?”
Source: Dancer from the Dance
“have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.”
Source: Marriage 911
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
“Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?”
“Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.”
“Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?”
Source: Beginner's Luke
“Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.”
“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead! Do you know what I mean? (from 'Lonely Are the Brave' screenplay)”
“Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.”
“Have you ever noticed how many silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods...of the shore...of the meadows...of the night...of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread them are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell just where I was by the quality of the silence about me.”
Source: Anne of Windy Poplars
“Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.”
“Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!”