H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.”
“He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.”
“He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse”
“He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.”
Source: The Journal of Curious Letters
“He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.”
“He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.”
“He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.”
Source: The Dark Highlander
“He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him”
Source: Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel
“He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.”
Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole #2: The Journey
“He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.”
“He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.”
Source: The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
“He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
“He didn't look back. He never did”
Source: The Siege of Macindaw (Ranger's Apprentice Book 6)
“He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.”
“He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.”
“He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.”
“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”
Source: The Velveteen Rabbit
“He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.”
“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”
“He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.”
“He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.”
“He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.”
Source: The Mercy Thompson Collection
“He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to Tohr on the bed, exhaled some Turkish smoke, and went back for the exit like he couldn't wait to get out of the room. Except he stopped before he left, "I gotchu, my brother," he said to the door. "I know, V. You always have. ~Vishous and Tohrment Lover Reborn”
Source: Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series
“He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].”
“He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.”
“He didn't see anything." She rolled to her feet. "I was in your bed! We could have scarred him for life!" "Grace, we weren't doing anything. Well, I wasn't. You were snoring." "I don't--" She smoothed her dress down and searched out her sandals, shoving her feet into them. She glanced at herself in the mirror over his dresser and groaned. Hair, wild. Lips, swollen. Face, flushed. Nipples, hard. "Dammit!" She clapped her hands over them. "It's like they're broken!”
“He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.”
“He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.”
“He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.”
Source: Landline: A Novel
“He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.”
“He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?”
Source: P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness
“He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.”
“He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.”
“He didn't want the respect of people who weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.”
“He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.”
“He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.”
Source: The Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate
“He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.”