H Quotes
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“He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner—if his response was what they wanted.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.”
“He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]”
“He detected a faint hint of tonkatsu in the broth, but the base was definitely chicken rather than pig bones. The broth wasn't quite transparent, but it was a great deal clearer than the turbid liquid that usually accompanied ramen these days. It seemed quite possible there was some kind of fish stock in there too. A garlicky, gingery aroma rose from the bowl.
The noodles were the thin, straight type, and cooked slightly on the firm side. On top of them lay two slices of roast pork and another two of kamaboko fish cake. These were accompanied by bean sprouts, pickled bamboo shoots, and negi onion.”
Source: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
“He devotes a lot of time to teachings and deeds that transform him into a mighty man. When you come into his presence, you cannot deny the fact that he is a powerful man.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He devoured the fried Cascadura fish, tearing through the crispy skin to the tender meat, then moved on to the macaroni pie, scooping it up with callaloo.”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
“He dicho cosas estúpidas, cosas falsas y cosas inútiles. No se puede ser sabio veinticuatro horas al día”
“He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times he knew nobody would be around”
Source: Into the Wild
“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”
“He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.”
“He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.”
Source: Works of Charles Dickens
“He did everything he was supposed to do except live his own life, and he was full of rage.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.”
Source: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
“He did his best to reassure her. He shook his head. “I know. I’m pleased very very much. I’m going to enjoy watching you tonight. I’m going to enjoy watching others covet you.” He pulled her close and kissed her slowly.”
Source: Club Dishabille
“He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.”
“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
Source: The Human Script
“He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.”
“He did not appear to be a very tall man; what I could see of legs seemed stumpy, though heavily muscled. His chest was broad and deep. Later I learned that he swam in the sea almost every morning. His thick strong arms were circled with leather wristbands and a bronze armlet above his left elbow that gleamed with polished onyx and lapis lazuli... Puckered white scars from old wounds stood out against the dark skin of his arms, parting the black hairs like roads through a forest... Odysseos wore a sleeveless tunic, his legs and feet bare, but he had thrown a lamb's fleece across his wide shoulders. His face was thickly bearded with dark curly hair that showed a trace of grey. His heavy mop of ringlets came down to his shoulders and across his forehead almost down to his black eyebrows. Those eyes were as grey as the sea outside on this rainy afternoon, probing, searching, judging.”
“He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.”
Source: Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig
“He did not become someone else.
He became what he had buried.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars.
He belonged right where he was. He belonged nowhere.”
Source: Dances with Wolves
“He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars.
He belonged right where he was now. He belonged nowhere.”
Source: Dances with Wolves
“He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.”
Source: Lord Jim
“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”
“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”
“He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him—as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.”
“He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.”
Source: Dead Heat
“He did not even have the time to understand the depth of this loss. It was almost pleasurable. He hurt so much for her lack that it was like feeling something.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“He did not even look back at the castle that had been his home.
There, he would never even have a name.
Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world.
And maybe,
just maybe,
he’d come back one day,
and burn that
fucking
palace
to the ground.”
Source: We Were Liars
“He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]”
“He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!”
“He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.”
Source: The Hobbit
“He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget.”
“He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment’s thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.
Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.
He had to move. Now.”
Source: Vertigo
“He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.”
Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
“He did not immediately answer. Their eyes locked and neither looked away. Camille swallowed as he pushed away from the counter and came toward her. He set one hand on the table beside hers and the other on the back of her chair. He drew breath as though to say something, but then leaned over her instead and kissed her.”
Source: Someone to Hold
“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”
Source: Hatchet
“He did not know how to make her understand that he would be happy, most happy, to become her husband in his turn. He certainly could not tell her that, now, at this moment, in this place, in the presence of this corpse; nevertheless he could, he believed, find one of those ambiguous, acceptable, complicated statements whose words have hidden significance, and which can, by their calculated reservations, express everything you intend.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.”
“He did not know that Mary was reading his words.
And Mary did not know that he was smiling.
But somewhere, beyond the reach of time and place,
their hearts beat in harmony, their feelings spoke in silence,
as though joy itself was flowing through the ether between souls.”
Source: Symphony of Solitude: A Novel about Mr. Ford
“He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.”
“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.”
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey