H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
“Having money isn't everything, not having it is.”
“Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.”
“Having money to me was like having a full tank of gas -- it didn't mean much if you didn't know where you were going or didn't have the curiosity to enjoy the ride....I had never felt as impoverished as the rich people I knew who had no imagination, whose capacity for fun was stunted.”
Source: The House of Hidden Meanings
“Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.”
“Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.”
“Having more curators to go around among the artists is more effective and more efficient. The artists are better looked after so you get better works. What isn't so effective is actually that some visitors and some members of the press really want a single voice with which they can relate.”
“Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.”
“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“Having more energy isn’t ultimately about having better supplements; it’s about becoming a better person.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.”
“Having more success allows you more freedom to take more risks and do things.”
“Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.”
“Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Having moved from Florida to Wisconsin, it has been an interesting exercise for me to attend networking events where I did not know a soul. I would silently scan the room to see who was approachable and who was not. It was those individuals who put out the approachable vibes whom I would be magnetized toward to engage in conversation.”
“Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.”
“Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.”
“Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.”
“Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.”
“Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.”
“Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.”
“Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.”
“Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.”
“Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.”
“Having my heart jump when I suddenly heard his voice or saw him seated at his seat when I’d almost given up hoping he’d be among us tonight eventually blossomed like a poisoned flower. Seeing him and thinking he’d join us for dinner tonight only to hear his peremptory Esco taught me there are certain wishes that must be clipped like wings off a thriving butterfly.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Having my parents be divorced, you're forced to realize, "Sooner or later I'm going to be on my own and have to figure it out." I have so many brothers that are younger than me, so I have to have that mindset of, "Okay, what am I going to do now?" I have to show them what growing up is - it's not me living at dad's house until I'm 25.”
“Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.”
“Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.”
“Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.”
“Having nephews really wasn’t always bad. Ruthie might have been an agent of chaos, and his brilliance never seemed to bring him anything but trouble, but he was also a kind heart. Sometimes that was more important than all the rest.”
Source: Murder by Memory
“Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.”
“Having never left the house you are looking for the way home”
“Having never smoked, I hacked after inhaling. The taste was bitter, a flavor marking the twilight of my childhood.”
Source: The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
“HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following week. Mate, I loved it. The friendly people, the food, the females!”
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their beliefs. Such people often live closely guarded lives, fearful of encountering someone or something that might shatter their insecure spiritual foundation.This attitude, however, is not the fault of religion but of their own limited understanding. True Dharma leads in exactly the opposite direction. It enables one to integrate all the many diverse experiences of life into a meaningful and coherent whole, thereby banishing fear and insecurity completely.”
“Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.”
“Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.”
“Having no choice makes choosing easier.”
“Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..”
“Having no destination, I am never lost.”
“Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.”
“Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.”
“Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.”
Source: A Simple Heart
“Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.”
“Having no name to call on was having no past; having no past pointed to the fissure between the past and the present. That fissure is represented in the Door of No Return: that place where our ancestors departed one world for another; the Old World for the New. The place where all names were forgotten and all beginnings recast.”
Source: A Map to the Door of No Return
“Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.”
“Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.”
“Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.”