H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He can cook and give good massages. What more do you need in a husband?”
“He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.”
“He can do anything he likes and I'm so lonely, oh so lonely— And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do—”
Source: The Black Prince
“He can do most who has most power.”
“He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.”
“He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…”
Source: Salomé
“He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]”
“He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.”
Source: The Road film tie-in
“He can go to a boardroom meeting . . . he's very proper now." - Sydney Sage”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.”
Source: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)
“He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.”
“He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.”
“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the man falls. I've seen Billy hook men's livers and punch at their hearts. I've seen him break a man's nose in the ring, shatter an eardrum, close an eye. I've seen him hit a man so hard, fist to jaw, the man seemed to fall asleep before he fell, his body so relaxed his face looked calm even when his head slammed against canvas.”
Source: Both Members of the Club
“He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don’t back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he’s throwing everything he’s got at someone as weak as I am and it’s not working. He’s going to take himself down.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”
Source: Cannery Row
“He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.”
“He can make even the act of putting on his dressing gown appear as a gesture of defiance.”
“He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself”
“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”
Source: Star of the Morning
“He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.”
“He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.”
“He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.”
“He can remind himself that all beauty in plants and animals is a quiet and durable form of love and longing, and he can see the animal, as also the plant, patiently and willingly joining and multiplying and growing, not from physical pleasure, not from physical suffering, but bowing to necessities which are greater than pleasure and pain and more powerful than desire and resistance. Oh if only mankind could embrace this mystery, which penetrates the earth right into its smallest elements, with more humility, and bear and sustain it with more gravity and know how terribly heavy it is, instead of taking it lightly.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.”
“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
“He can run, but he can't hide.”
“He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.”
“He can see me standing behind you,' I said. 'You're a giant oaf, but not that giant of an oaf.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“He can see the three women in his mind's eye, so vivid and real. The young redhead with her plaited tails dancing around him as she wove the fates of all humanity, the dark-haired warrior measuring each weave and passing them on to her sister, Aisa who’s dainty fingers snipped and let fall the lives and dreams of men.”
Source: Twisted Fate
“He can see us," said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently.”
“He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else -- he can smell the boy's own scent, something bittersweet.”
“He can stab me with a knife and I’ll be lying on
the ground, dying, drawing little hearts in blood. -My Darling Arrow”
“He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to”
“He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.”
Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
“He can’t breathe because he’s got asthma, whereas you’re just an asshole for no reason.”
Source: Feral Youth
“He can’t change anything. He doesn’t own me. Nobody does. They may think they do, but no matter how they scold or threaten or beat me, they can’t really control what goes on in my head, and I think that frustrates them to no end.”
Source: Iron Widow
“He can’t get comfortable in this house, with this family, not even as his soul reaches for something. For someone.
It would be easier if they hated him for all the trouble he’s caused.
But of course he’s stuck with the one family who refuses to lose patience.”
Source: The Kings of Nowhere
“He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.”
Source: Crises
“He can't know what it was like, not the first time, not the last. He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him. Whether she thought he'd failed her, or whether she wanted him to let her go. This, more than anything, makes him feel that she is gone.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“He can't love me and hate Lily. I might as well be sawed in half.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“He can't stand me. But I love him?”
Source: The Sibius Knot
“He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.”
Source: This Shattered World
“He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars reflected in his eyes, can see the wonder of it in the way his mouth opens but no sound comes out. His eyes, his face—they’re beautiful.”
Source: This Shattered World
“He can’t tell if Hal is sad. He is having a harder and harder time reading Hal’s mind or whether he’s in good spirits. This worries him. He used to be able to sort of pre-verbally know in his stomach generally where Hal was and what he was doing, even if Hal was far away and playing or if Mario was away, and now he can’t anymore. Feel it. This worries him and feels like when you’ve lost something important in a dream and you can’t even remember what it was but it’s important. Mario loves Hal so much it makes his heart beat hard. He doesn’t have to wonder if the difference now is him or his brother because Mario never changes.”
“He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
“He can’t touch me. Not this time.
“Come for me, Dubh. Show me what you have to offer me.”
“Fuck, Lucy,” he groans as he keeps thrusting in the air. And finally, spurts of pearly white cum shoot out of the tip, onto the floor.
“Goddamn you,” he curses as he spills more onto the ground.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“He can talk?" "I talk," Tyson admitted. "You are pretty.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.”
“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”
Source: Lady Midnight