H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.”
Source: Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob
“He had the suspicion that cogs were spinning, the universe beyond his walls was functioning and he was not, but he had no choice.”
Source: How the Dead Dream
“He had the tool to break down the walls that imprisoned his people. He had the tool to rip away the veil to the Holy of Holies so that his flock could come before the Lord and be cleansed, made whole, transformed, and have a personal, loving relationship with their creator. That very tool san on Hannah's bookshelf right now, gathering dust until Sunday morning. Her Savior was there, waiting to speak to her and show her the way home again, the way back to love. YOUR WORD IS LIFE! Why didn't more people understand that?”
Source: The Atonement Child
“He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.”
Source: Steve Jobs
“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”
“He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“He had the vague thought that riding a difficult mare for so many years had given her an unseen reservoir of power. Luminous as she appeared, she was no will-o’-the-wisp. She was formidable. Strong.”
Source: The Muse of Maiden Lane
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”
“He had the whitest teeth I'd ever seen, which made me think his kisses would taste like Pep O Mint Life Savers. Joe's kisses probably tasted like pot and Funyuns. And failure.”
Source: The Girl He Used to Know
“He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.”
“He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.”
Source: Love Story
“He had these eyes. They were blue and they looked bluer because he had a dark head of hair. They were soulful, in some way; they seemed to say things that I knew he's probably never say out loud.”
Source: The Fall of January Cooper
“He had this in common with Oedipus, that he was growing old. Even to himself it had become obvious. He had lost interest in other people’s affairs, and seldom attended when they spoke to him. He was fond of talking himself but often forgot what he was going to say, and even when he succeeded, it seldom seemed worth the effort. His phrases and gestures had become stiff and set, his anecdotes, once so successful, fell flat, his silence was as meaningless as his speech. Yet he had led a healthy, active life, had worked steadily, made money, educated his children. There was nothing and no one to blame: he was simply growing old.”
Source: The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
“He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.”
Source: Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“He had thought enough during the day. The time for thinking was now over. Thoughts tortured and in paradise one sought only pleasure.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“He had thought it barren: he saw now that it was the womb of the worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes--and here, with how many more! No: space was the wrong name.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.”
“He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“He had thought that being with her would make him feel less lonely, but it only gave his loneliness a new stubborn quality, like it was planted down inside him and impossible to kill.”
“He had thought that he would feel elated if they managed to steal back the Horcrux, but somehow he did not; all he felt as he sat looking out at the darkness, of which his wand lit only a tiny part, was worry about what would happen next. It was as though he had been hurtling toward this point for weeks, months, maybe even years, but now he had come to an abrupt halt, run out of road.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.”
Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead
“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.”
“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”
Source: Les Misérables
“He had to appreciate a creature that knew what it was doing.”
Source: Heart of the Assassin
“He had to be a GhostWalker. She was looking at a legitimate GhostWalker. The real deal.”
Source: Toxic Game
“He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had never been forced to experience the true blandness of him on his own.”
Source: In Bloom
“He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.”
Source: Debt of Honor
“He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue his existence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwood’s lips.”
“He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“He had to find time in his schedule to talk to me. Wow, that made me feel important.”
Source: A Midsummer's Nightmare
“He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012”
Source: Spring Cleaning
“He had to go there because of Patrick; and because it was fated. Yes, that gave him courage, to feel that he had not sought it, it had come upon him, and however fruitless or disastrous that journey might be, he had to undertake it, because it was his fate.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“He had to have her, he definitely had to have her. She was not merely the latest object on which his greedy desire to be saved had fixed itself; no, she was the woman who was going to save him. The woman whose fine intelligence and deep sympathy and divine body, yes, whose divine body would successfully deflect his attention from the gloomy well shaft of his feelings and the contemplation of his past.”
Source: Bad News
“He had to have this woman, knew his life would be worthless without her. The raging heat of that knowledge raced through his veins, stronger than desire, hotter than the passion that caught fire between them.”
Source: Out of the Storm
“He had to hide his heart. It was the only way he could survive!”
Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed to get control of his breathing. His excited heart beat more steadily; the pounding of the waves inside him subsided slowly. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusky reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened, and he entered. The next performance in the theatre of his soul was beginning.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.”
Source: Hatchet
“He had to know, on some level, that this trip was either a celebration of improvement in health, or a last hurrah. And he still had yet to find out which one it was.”
“He had to make a decision, and he had to make it fast. Staying there longer would put his life and everyone else's at risk. If they died, so would those inside the house.”
Source: Escaping The City: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller
“He had to make a memory person because he was never, ever again going to see, speak with, hold, the real one. It seemed so obvious that that would be the case when someone died, but he couldn't seem to wrap his mind around it, that he would never see Annie again, that they were in the kitchen together one winter evening and then she was gone for good. The foreverness of it shocked him every single day.”
Source: After Annie
“HE HAD TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING BECAUSE HE STOLE ALL MY MONEY. Now, how’s that for a poetic justice plot twist! To the people in the back: You’ve been lied to and deceived.
You’ll need more than Cliff notes to understand this story. When you sabotage someone’s ability to earn an income, you will earn double but you will also work double until the debt is settled! You will labor for what you costed someone else. You’ll have to earn your portion, plus their portion. Meaning, you’ll work both portions! Meanwhile, you’ll never have peace! And your fall won’t come in the middle! It will Come from the top. Happy climbing.”
Source: Order in The Courtroom: The Tale of The Texas Poker Player
“He had to raise his voice to be heard over the wind. 'That Might be our future in that box.'
'The future is ours to take, Jack we don't need anybody to give it to us.' Walker looked out through the windows at the lake. It was immense.”
“He had to raise huge sums of money in a short period of time. He had already spent about ten million of his personal fortune on his African ventures. [...] It was utopian, however, to imagine that a single person, no matter how wealthy, could bear all the financial burdens.”
Source: Leopold II of the Belgians: King of colonialism
“He had to take sleep by surprise. Preparing for bed simply alerted insomnia, brought all the busy thoughts, the renegade remorses and guilts and recriminations.”
Source: Zod Wallop
“He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael’s account that they loved him, not mine.” “Maybe they loved him on his own account,” said Clary.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“He had to wait in the sitting room for forty-five minutes. The room smelled of disinfectant and potpourri—he had the outlandish sensation he was in a medicinal Indian restaurant. During this time, he sat back in the corner, poised on the edge of his seat. It made the waiting easier if he leaned forward on his elbows with his hands between his legs as his knees drummed up and down. The other patients spread out through the room, each maximizing the distance to another human.”
“He had told her he would love her forever, but he could not stay with her. From that time on, she couldn't see his glow or hear his voice in her head. Could he still hear her? Was he even aware of her existence?”
Source: Evercrossed