H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.”
“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”
“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.”
“Half a dozen peacocks, reportedly imported from London Zoo, wandered around the green, harassing anyone dressed in bright colours.”
Source: Babel
“Half a heart is not enough to live a whole life, is it?”
Source: Bloodmarked
“Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.”
“Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.”
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
“Half a loaf is better than no bread.”
Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household
“Half a loaf is better than none.”
“Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.”
“Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.”
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal”
“Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.”
“Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.”
Source: Running in the Family
“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
“Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.”
“Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“Half an hour later, I was downstairs at my own desk when I felt my first ever stimulant kick. My heart beat a little faster. Then my brain was, like . . . aroused. Turned on. Stimulated—like Tyga in that gross song he wrote about having sex with Kylie Jenner when she turned eighteen.”
Source: How to Murder Your Life
“Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .”
“Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.”
“Half an identity is better than none. It gets you a car and lets you drive it, but it has fuck all to say about where you should be going and why. So he is simply heading south.”
Source: Badlands
“Half and half equals one.
And if already divided,
Left they are as two halves
For they're broken hearted.”
Source: ACross Tic
“Half as sober as a judge.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind.
A place where the sun rose in the west and set in the east, where the mountains bowed to the wind like trees, and the rain sprinkled up from the ground below and onto the clouds above.
A place where no one hurt or lost, or felt any tinge of desperation.
A place where heartbeats were the only words needed, and music floated on the wind like dust.
A place where no place was home. Where a single person could be the only sustenance needed to survive.
A place where there were no yesterdays or todays, only tomorrows. A place for me to find solace, an escape from the real world I was forced to live in.”
Source: The Tomorrows
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation—the day before everything changed—the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life.”
Source: The Line
“Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.”
“Half aware of him, Rosalind shifts position, fidgiting with a feeble turn of her shoulders so that her back is snug against his chest. She slides her foot along his shin and rests the arch of he foot on his toes. Aroused furthe, he feels his erection trapped against the small of her back and reaches down to free himself. Her breathing resumes its steady rhythm. Henry lies still, waiting for sleep. By contemporary standards, by any standards, it's perverse that he's never tired of making love to Rosalind, never been seriously tempted by the opportunities that has drifted his way through the generous logic of medical hierarchy. When he thinks of sex, he thinks of her. These eyes, these breasts, this tongue, this welcome. Who else could love him so knowingly, with such warmth and teasing humour, or accumulate so rich a past with him? In one lifetime it wouldn't be possible to find another woman with whom he can learn to be so free, whom he can please with such abandon and expertise. By some accident of character, it's familiarity that excites him more than sexual novelty. He suspects that there's something numbed or deficient or timid in himself. Plenty of male friends sidle into adventures with younger women; now and then a solid marriage explodes in a firefight of recrimination. Perowne watches on with unease, fearing he lacks an element of the musculine life force, and a bold and healthy appetite for experience. Where's his curiosity? What's wrong with him? But there is nothing he can do about himself. He meets the occasional questioning glance of an attractive woman with a bland and level smile. This fidelity might look like virtue of doggedness, but it's neither of these because he exercise no real choice. This is what he was to have: possession, belonging, repetition.”
Source: Saturday
“Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.”
Source: Invitation Only: A Private novel
“Half demon, half human, wholly f*cked." ~ Muse”
Source: Darkest Before Dawn
“Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.”
“Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.”
Source: Angels Fall
“Half hearted efforts produce half hearted results.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“Half is better than nothing and I had no money to invest in this bigger investment to start with I am okay with that”
“Half is done when the beginning is done.”
“Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.”
“Half knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. Take the notion that jellyfish don't have a brain, for example. When we talk about the brain, we're actually referring to the central nervous system. In case of the jellyfish, the nervous system is not centralized, instead it's spread across the anatomy. So the actual fact is, jellyfish do have a brain, it just doesn't look like one. Even trees have a brain, a nervous system that is. To put it simply, consciousness is the supreme fundamental of life, and it is impossible to have consciousness without having some sort of nervous system, for consciousness is the creation of the nervous system.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Half-Lieutenant Marsh’k Kluss’ta was not a happy man. Naturally, that didn’t bother him as things were rarely otherwise. As the commanding sub-officer of the Black Sunrise, happiness was not a state of mind expected of him, though in reality – our reality – he was probably not such a bad person. The crew, though terrified of him even under normal circumstances, believed that he had the heart of a little child. (Let’s leave it at that, shall we?)”
Source: Black Sunrise
“Half-lovers are the biggest source of life-long stress. Naa jeenay daitay hain naa marnay.(Neither they would let you die, nor live)”
“Half magic is no magic at all.”
“Half man, half Randle McMurphy!”
“Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.”
“Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.”
“Half my fan mail comes from Japan.”
“Half my life is an act of revision.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition
“Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition
“Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true.”
Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses