H Quotes
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“He aprendido que esperar es la parte más difícil, y también quiero acostumbrarme a eso; saber que tú estás conmigo, aunque no estés a mi lado”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“He aquí el augurio instaurado:
un ímpetu de banderas
en el que hundimos
nuestros ojos con ceguera.
Aquí la luna que bebemos
a cuentagotas mientras cosquillean
las palas en la tierra mojada.”
Source: Poética abstracción de cuerpos deshojados
“He aquí el fin del hombre renacentista. La maquina y la ciencia que había lanzado sobre el mundo exterior, para dominarlo y conquistarlo, ahora se vuelven contra él, dominándolo y conquistándolo como a un objeto más. Ciencia y maquina se fueron alejando hacia un olimpo matemático, dejando sólo y desamparado al hombre que les había dado vida. Triángulos y acero, logaritmos y electricidad, sinusoides y energía atómica, unidos a las formas más misteriosas y demoníacas del dinero, constituyendo finalmente el Gran Engranaje, del que los seres humanos acabaron por ser oscuras e impotentes piezas.”
Source: Hombres y engranajes
“He aquí lo que quiero significar: que si se encuentran ciertos enigmas y frases difíciles en aquella historia de Galilea y se da con la respuesta de aquellos enigmas en la historia de Asís, ello demuestra, en realidad, que ha sido transmitido un secreto en una sola tradición religiosa, y en ninguna otra; demuestra que el arca cerrada en Palestina puede ser abierta en Asís, porque es la Iglesia quien guarda las llaves.”
Source: Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated
“He aquí los frutos de un Dios inmortal e invencible, que cambia la semilla en flor y la oruga en mariposa.”
Source: Confesiones de un Inquisidor
“He aquí mi secreto, que no puede ser más simple: solo con el corazón se puede ver bien; lo esencial es invisible a los ojos.”
Source: El principito
“He arched a brow. “Miss Lahey, are you flirting with me?”
“Well, hot stuff, if you have to ask, I’m not doing it right.”
His laughter rumbled low, slithering heat underneath my skin. I pulled him to me, backing him against the table, risking a literal firestorm as his lips laid upon mine with a burning promise of—
“That’s how babies are made!”
I reeled back and knocked over a chair. “Aunt M!”
“Sex kills!”
“M, seriously.” Mom walked into the kitchen and rolled her eyes.
My aunt patted her belly. “It killed my waistline.” Then she cackled.
Who was the banshee now?
“Ayden and Rory sitting in a tree,” Selena sing-songed, “making b-a-b-b-y-n-g.”
“Mom!”
“Selena,” Mom admonished. “That’s not the right spelling.”
“He (Archibald, Lord Wavell, former Viceroy of India) was intellectually formidable , though he did not parade the fact. In 1938 he gave the Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge on ‘Generals and Generalship’. Rommell carried a copy of the lectures with him throughout the North Africa campaign.”
Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“he argued with Susie that she had been conned into spending too much money on Howard's coffin.”
Source: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
“He armado la idea de mi país como un rompecabezas, seleccionando aquellas piezas que se ajustan a mi diseño e ignorando las demás.”
Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“He arose from the loblollies
to follow the estuaries of his mind.”
Source: Names of the Kingdom
“He arrested her hand and slammed it against the glass. “Don’t touch me,” he whispered hoarsely. “I won’t forget.”
“He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page.
"Go 'long," I said; "you ain't more than a paragraph.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“He arrived one day at Senez, a former episcopal city, riding a donkey, his means at that moment being so scanty that he could afford no other conveyance. The mayor, welcoming him at the gates of the residence, watched with shocked eyes while he dismounted, and laughter arose from a few citizens who were standing by.
"Gentlemen," said the bishop, "I know what has outraged you. You find it arrogant in a simple priest that he should be mounted like Jesus Christ. Let me assure you that I do it from necessity, not from vanity.”
Source: Les Misérables
“He arrives at the girl's window. They are face-to-face. She sees him through the streaky glass, through the rain- now pounding; a mudded, monstrous creature. She opens her mouth to scream, to cry for help, but in that very moment, everything changes.
Before her eyes, he changes. She sees through the layers of mud, through the generations of darkness and rage and sorrow, to the human face beneath. A young man's face. A forgotten face. A face of such longing and sadness and beauty; and she reaches, unthinking, to unlock the window. To bring him in from the rain.”
Source: The Distant Hours
“He ascended onto the back of the divine bird with his umbrella, and rose against the wind amidst the roar of the winter storm, fluttering in his white clothes, as handsome as a god. The herdsmen on the desert uttered a wave of exclamation, all kneeling down to worship him, as if the gods descended on earth.”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades, glowing palely, the wind rising now and again to moan through the trees. The trail scrawled ever upward, toward the looming darkness of the mountain's peak. Above it all the sea of night, the strange ornamentation of stars.”
Source: Gods of Howl Mountain
“He asked as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office.”
Source: The Secret History
“He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
Source: The Histories
“He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.”
Source: The New Land
“He asked her what he wanted to know since that day when they both had met ---- "Why did you become friends with me?"
Surprised by his question, she replied: "Now, you want to know this." Silence prevailed.
Then she elaborated: "I don't think friendship or love need any reason. What matters is how long we are committed to the relationship. This is more important than any reason.”
“He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter.”
Source: DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.”
“He asked himself why he wanted his mother back. And his answer was because he was lonely. Because there was now a big, gaping hole where his heart used to be. But it wasn't loneliness, not really. Now that his mom was gone, Hart realized, he was completely without love in his life. It came to him with so much clarity, what he needed to wish for. He couldn't boil it down to anything smaller. He only needed a little anyway. It would go a long way.
He put the seed in the ground, closed his tear-soaked eyes, and spoke his wish out loud. "I wish for love."
The next day, he walked into a gas station store and found his love there waiting for him.”
Source: Of Earthly Delights
“He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.”
“He asked if I loved him and I asked him if the sun ever needed the permission of the day to shine.”
“He asked if I was happy with you. Nothing of importance.” He groaned after the words rolled from his lips. “Not saying that’s not important, or that you aren’t important, because you are. I’m just saying it’s not a big deal or whatever. Well, I mean, it is a big deal, but—”
Haven covered his mouth with her hand to shut him up. “I get it, Carmine. I love you too.”
Source: Sempre
“He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.”
Source: My Education: A Book of Dreams
“He asked it so quietly that the words came out gravelly, like a violin played too softly.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“He asked, "May I kiss you?"
I stopped blinking. The six lanes of traffic stopped moving. That question made the world stop spinning. A chill ran up and down my spine. My hands opened and closed a thousand times.”
Source: One Night
“He asked me a lot of questions about my recipes, wanted to see my kitchen, my garden, was amazed when I showed him my cellar with its shelves of terrines and preserves and aromatic oils (walnut, rosemary, truffle) and vinegars (raspberry, lavender, sour apple),”
Source: Five Quarters of the Orange
“He asked me, as if looking for one definitive moment in time: 'How did Zen begin?' I pondered the matter a moment. 'Some say it started with a flower held up in the air, but you can't rely on formulas. Zen man Ikkyu was enlightened by the sound of a squawking crow.”
Source: The School of Soft Attention
“He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.”
Source: To the Nines
“He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.”
Source: I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
“He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.”
“He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there.”
Source: Orwell's Roses
“He asked us what we were doing, and our smuggler said, “Oh, nothing. We’re just hanging out”—as if lots of Americans in ninja suits loitered around Syria in the middle of the afternoon. We asked him if he had a cell phone. He didn’t, which meant we had twenty or thirty minutes to get back across the Turkish border.”
Source: And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
“He?” asked Victor incredulously. He wasn’t in the mood for God. Not this morning. “According to your thesis,” he said, “an influx of adrenaline and a desire to survive gave you that talent. Not God. This isn’t divinity, Eli. It’s science and chance.”
“Maybe to a point, but when I climbed into that water, I put myself in His hands—”
“No,” snapped Victor. “You put yourself in mine.”
Source: Vicious
“He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'”
“He asked: “You are aware of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right?”
“‘You Do Not Talk About Thermodynamics?’” Rudy said nothing. “The currency of the universe, Entropy. Okay and…?”
“A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.”
“That seems unrelated, but I’ll allow it. Is that supposed to be comforting?”
“I like either the lavender or cinnamon-scented ones.”
“This isn’t the advice I was asking for and you know that.”
“Isn’t it? You know, it doesn’t take a master’s in behavioral psychology to see you’ve some unresolved issues.”
“And the universe has a tendency to devolve into chaos, so why bother controlling it, just control myself?”
Rudy just continued to shoot glances at Danny’s arm. Danny kept it face down, pretending not to notice.
“Rudy: Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Seuss. Thank you.”
Source: Dysfunction
“He asked you not to like me,
So why did you, Neera?
Even now, I perform breaststrokes in caterpillar-stuffed north eastern clouds
He didn’t ask me for any poems for 50 years,
So why are you asking now, Neera?
Even now, standing in 10-foot-deep water, I wield icy rods
He wrote an editorial on my sub-judice case,
Turning an editor, why are you asking for my writing, Neera?
Even now, I love flatbreads stuffed with smoked penguin fat
He did not confess to being my anthology’s publisher
Why did you confess, Neera?
Even now, I have family-pack yawns in the face of families,
He didn’t like pronouncing my name
So why are you telling it to youths, Neera?
Even now, in bloody waters, I join the Bollywood chorus of tiger sharks
He had said I have nothing of a true writer
So why do you think I do, Neera?
At Imlitala, I knew rat roasts don’t taste too good without charcoal smoke
He said I have nothing creative in me
So why do you think I do, Neera?
Having burnt bank notes worth Rs 5,000 crore, I smelt death
He said I’ll never write poetry
So why do you think I have, Neera?
On the banks of Amsterdam’s canals I have heard doddering old men sing limericks
He transcended from sorrow to anger and anger to hate
Why are you so generous Neera?
Please don’t tell my grandmother.”
Source: ছোটোলোকের কবিতা
“He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.”
“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
“He asks, "Do you know why I was born?"
"To live for some years and die.”
Source: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
“He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.”
Source: The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to France ... Etc
“He asks me if I'd ever killed someone and rushes from the kitchen table, but I ask him to stay, to listen.
"Collateral Damage," I say, "is the polite way of expressing the death of civilians who unknowingly mingle with the enemy."
He's thirteen now, fascinated with video games glamorizing real wars. I rise to leave, and he says, "But Dad, you didn't answer my question."
I did.”
Source: My American Night
“He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects.”
Source: Someone Who Isn’t Me
“He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.”
Source: The 5th Wave