H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.”
Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana
“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes as if their life depended on it. All for what? he wants to shout. To get into the top university, so that you can somehow convince yourself you are better than the great unwashed? So that your parents can convince themselves that they are better parents than the great unwashed? So that Mum and Dad’s fourteen-hour days at the office, paying for a fucking private education you never asked for, wasn’t just a pathetic waste of a life?”
Source: Hurt
“He has lost his left arm, but I my right.”
Source: REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More
“He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.”
“He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.”
“He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.”
Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
“He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]”
“He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.”
“He has many uses for people who go through life inventing their own truth; once you know what fantasy they live in, they are easy to motivate and manipulate.”
Source: After Death
“He has me pinned on my back in record time, his mouth crashing against mine as we frantically devour one another. “Awesome speech,” he murmurs, pushing my sweater up and planting his hot mouth against my equally hot skin. “Very motivational.”
Source: Keeping Kyler
“He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.”
“He has more or less eliminated the idea of God-manhood from his mind. Having rejected the understanding that his life and activity are significant only in so far as they incarnate, reflect and radiate that transcendent spiritual reality which is the ground and centre of his own being, he is condemned to believe that he is the autocratic and omnipotent ruler of his own affairs and of the world about him, which it is his right and duty to subdue, organize, investigate and exploit to serve his profane mental curiosity or his acquisitive material appetites. The deification of man as a fallen mortal entity has led, as we are only too well aware, to the most extreme forms of cruelty and rapacity, forms which deny the unique and absolute value of the human person and of every other created reality. The assertion that man is merely human has resulted in a dehumanization possibly without parallel in the history of the world.”
“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”
“He has my features but his soul is clean.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
“He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.”
“He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.”
Source: The Virgin's Wedding Night
“He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.”
“He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like him, but because of a past they happen to share.”
“He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.”
Source: Chain Reaction
“He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.”
“He has no faith in principles, only in frogs.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
Source: How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
“He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.”
“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.”
“He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.”
Source: Enquiry concerning political justice: with selections from Godwin's other writings
“He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“He has no worse enemy than himself.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
“He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.”
“He has only as much ground as his two feet take up, only as much of a hold as his two hands encompass" - someone who falls asleep in the winter snow to freeze to death like a child, someone who does nothing but takes walks, yet who could take them anywhere, without moving.”
“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”
“He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding”
Source: Agamemnon
“He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.”
“He has outlived dissatisfaction. This is what remains after the passing of everything, the disciplined sadness of stoicism. This is the cooling. For so long it’s so hot, everything in life is so intense, and then little by little it goes away, and then comes the cooling, and then comes the ashes.”
Source: I Married a Communist
“he has pennies in his pocket and he is rich from a lifetime at se.”
Source: crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.”
“He has recovered the worth of his own soul's journey. His life takes on a new meaning and in his prayer, in the words of Kazantzakis, "is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I found, this how I plan to fight tomorrow.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.”
“He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.”
Source: Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health
“He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“He has risen.
May God resurrect everything that died in you, that is important into your life.
May he resurrect your hope, dreams, life, marriage, relationship, love, faith, courage, strength, job, career, skill and talent, passion, humanity and peace. May he rise them, as he is also risen.
Luke 24:6-7”
“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.”