H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.”
“Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.”
“Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.”
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
“Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.”
“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.”
“Half running, with my thumb out, I eventually got to the bridge crossing the Raritan River. Starting across it, I saw a stake-sided farm truck pulling over, and then stop ahead of me. “Where you go’n, sailor?” the driver asked. When I told him “Toms River,” he said that he was going right through there. The truck driver had a rough look about him, but he seemed friendly enough when he asked if I was in the Coast Guard, knowing that USCG sailors travel this way to their Boot Camp in Cape May. “No Sir,” I answered and explained that I was late getting back to Admiral Farragut Academy. “No problem,” he answered. “I’ll get you there!” It wasn’t the nicest truck, or the fastest, but it was a ride. We rumbled through Toms River and Beachwood and then on to Pine Beach, with only minutes to spare. Thanking him, I jumped out of the truck and ran towards Dupont Hall to check in. “Who was that?” one of the cadets asked, as I opened the door. “Oh… Just an Uncle who came to see me,” was the answer I gave as casually as I could….”
“Half-starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”
Source: The Hunger Angel
“Half talent is no talent.”
“Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.”
“Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.”
Source: Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space
“Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"”
“Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.”
“Half the battle is just showing up.”
“Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.”
“Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.”
“Half the battle of working with our emotions is deciding to do it. When we choose to work with them - we’’ find ourselves developing an inner strength to face any situation.”
Source: Take Command
“Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.”
“Half the chocolate bar was stuffed in my mouth when it dawned on me: I was totally going to break out from crushing that hard.”
Source: Love and Other Sins
“Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.”
“Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.”
“Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.”
“Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.”
“Half the food that he sends out is raw: ruby cubes of tuna dressed with a heaping mound of fresh wasabi; sea grapes the size of ball bearings that pop like caviar against the roof of your mouth; glistening beads of salmon roe meant to be stuffed into crispy sheets of nori.
The other half gets the blowtorch treatment. Tuna is transformed into a sort of tataki stir-fry, toasted, glazed with ponzu, and tossed with a thicket of spring onions. Fish heads are blitzed under the flame until the cheeks singe and the skin screams and the eyes melt into a glorious stew meant to be extracted with chopsticks. Even sea urchin, those soft orange tongues of ocean umami, with a sweetness so subtle that cooking it is considered heretical in most culinary circles, gets blasted like a crème brûlée by Toyo and his ring of fire.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.”
“Half the fun is plan to plan”
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
“Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.”
“Half the game is 90% mental.”
“Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.”
“half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now.”
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
“Half the headaches in a man’s life involve a women and half the heartaches in a women life are because of a men.”
Source: That Kiss In The Rain
“Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.”
“Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!”
Source: Three plays
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.”
“Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.”
“Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.”
“Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.”
Source: Forever Amber
“Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.”
Source: The Gods of Chaos: Netherworld
“Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.”
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
“Half the men worship at her feet; the other half have already proposed marriage, including young Jack, who has sworn to his dear 'miss' that he'll be true if she'll only wait a few more years for him.”
Source: Wayfarer