H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date." "About that," i hedged. "I'm sort of...going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling." Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“He inclined his head toward a fallen log. "Come. Let us break our fast."
She pushed the heels of her hands against her temples as if she had an ache in her head. "I need a cup of coffee."
William sat on a log. "What is this ye say ... coffee?"
She looked at him and arched one brow as if she considered him daft. "It's a hot drink that helps me wake up in the morning."
"But ye are already awake.”
Source: Rise of a Legend
“He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.”
“He influences people in the most positive manner. He understands that as a responsible man, he has to impact others.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He inhabits now that part of himself
Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised.
- Mark of Patmos”
Source: On Seeming to Presume
“He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.”
Source: Maya Banks KGI
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
“He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude (“drain the swamp”) by firing more than 35,000 civil servants.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“He inquired one evening about the crunchy white disks in his chop suey. A man told him they were tubers called water chestnuts, although they weren't nuts. They were an aquatic vegetable with the rare culinary quality of never getting soggy, even when cooked. "Worthy of consideration as a plant for cultivation in the swamps of the South," Fairchild scrawled.
His shipment of water chestnuts indeed made it to the South. But they never caught on. They had to be grown in muddy swamps, which wasn't a fatal flaw, but it was inconvenient and dirty, all for a small food with little flavor. If the United States had had more land or been at a point in its history when it valued more efficient use of land, farmers might have begun producing water chestnuts just because. But as with many of Fairchild's crops, the timing just wasn't right, and thus, water chestnuts remained an Asian food. The best evidence of this may be that in America ten decades later, water chestnuts tend to play little more than a humdrum role as supporting actors in Chinese takeout.”
Source: The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
“He inquired with the confidence of anyone trying free samples at a grocery store and putting on an Oscar-worthy performance of a person that was going to come back and buy it all later.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.”
“He insisted on clearing the table, and again devoted himself to his game of patience: piecing together the map of Paris, the bits of which he’d stuffed into the pocket of his raincoat, folded up any old how.
I helped him.
Then he asked me, straight out, ‘What would you say was the true centre of Paris?’
I was taken aback, wrong-footed. I thought this knowledge was part of a whole body of very rarefied and secret lore. Playing for time, I said, ‘The starting point of France’s roads . . . the brass plate on the parvis of Notre-Dame.’
He gave me a withering look.
‘Do you take for me a sap?’
The centre of Paris, a spiral with four centres, each completely self-contained, independent of the other three. But you don’t reveal this to just anybody. I suppose - I hope - it was in complete good faith that Alexandre Arnoux mentioned the lamp behind the apse of St-Germain-l’Auxerrois. I wouldn’t have created that precedent. My turn now to let the children play with the lock.
‘The centre, as you must be thinking of it, is the well of St-Julien-le-Pauvre. The “Well of Truth” as it’s been known since the eleventh century.’
He was delighted. I’d delivered. He said, ‘You know, you and I could do great things together. It’s a pity I’m already “beyond redemption”, even at this very moment.’
His unhibited display of brotherly affection was of childlike spontaneity. But he was still pursuing his line of thought: he dashed out to the nearby stationery shop and came back with a little basic pair of compasses made of tin.
‘Look. The Vieux-Chene, the Well. The Well, the Arbre-a-Liege On either side of the Seine, adhering closely to the line he’d drawn, the age-old tavern signs were at pretty much the same distance from the magic well.
‘Well, now, you see, it’s always been the case that whenever something bad happens at the Vieux-Chene, a month later — a lunar month, that is, just twenty-eight days — the same thing happens at old La Frite’s place, but less serious. A kind of repeat performance. An echo
Then he listed, and pointed out on the map, the most notable of those key sites whose power he or his friends had experienced.
In conclusion he said, ‘I’m the biggest swindler there is, I’m prepared to be swindled myself, that’s fair enough. But not just anywhere. There are places where, if you lie, or think ill, it’s Paris you disrespect. And that upsets me. That’s when I lose my cool: I hit back. It’s as if that’s what I was there for.”
Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“He insists he loves me too much to let me get involved in the war in any way … and I love him too much to obey.”
Source: Jade City
“He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.”
“He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust—just uneasiness—nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.”
“He interjected Himself in front of the bullet flying straight towards the heart of the one who had just stabbed Him in the back.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was the right man for the job.
Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could not longer see himself”
Source: The Grace of Kings
“He introduced me to a Jesuit whom he kept in his employ, and said that although his name was Adam, he was not the first man.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725 - 1798
“He introduces me to his political friends from across the spectrum. Conservatives who oo and ah and nod, telling me I'm just what this country is about. And so articulate! Frowning liberals who put it simply: my immoral career is counterproductive to my own community. Can I see that? My primary issue is poverty, not race. Their earnest faces tilt to assess my comprehension, my understanding of my role in this society. They conjure metaphors of boats and tides and rising waves of fairness. Not reparations -no, even socialism doesn't stretch that far. Though some do propose a rather capitalistic trickle-down from Britain to her lagging Commonwealth friends. Through economic generosity: trade and strong relations! Global leadership. The centrists nod. The son nods, too. Now that, they can all agree to.”
Source: Assembly
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
“He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.”
“He invented mother's hearts--& he certainly has the pattern in his own.”
“He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.”
Source: The best of John Bellairs
“He invests in his personal development and finds the proper knowledge to excel. This is what makes him such a sensible man. He is a scholar who explores the depths of curiosity by analyzing ancient texts. He does not settle; he waltzes towards self-improvement.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He invests in his personal development. He finds the proper knowledge that enables him to excel. This is what makes him such a sensible man. He is a scholar who explores the depths of curiosity by analyzing ancient texts. He does not settle; he waltzes towards self-improvement.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.”
Source: In the Miso Soup
“He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“He invites others to waltz in the rhythm of his goodness. When you listen to him speak, you can easily tell he is a good man who does what he does best.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.”
“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”
“He is a beautiful failure.”
Source: The Obelisk Gate
“He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.”
“He is a better man than you are. […] His ‘human fictions,’ as you choose to call them, make for nobility and manhood. You have no fictions, no dreams, no ideals. You are a pauper.”
Source: The Sea Wolf
“He is a blessed man who keeps on seeking the love and mercies of God. He knows that his role extends beyond the physical realm; he provides emotional sustenance and shelters his loved ones from life's storms.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.”
Source: Naked lunch
“he is a confoundedly bad kind of man. He is a slow-torturing kind of man. He is no more like flesh and blood than a rusty old carbine is. He is a kind of man―by George!―that has caused more restlessness, and more uneasiness, and more dissatisfaction with myself than all other men put together. That's the kind of man Mr. Tulkinghorn is!”
Source: Bleak House
“He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.”
“He is a discerning listener, thinker, speaker, and doer. He is careful of what he listens to, what he thinks, what he says, and what he does. He shuns anything that limits him from being fruitful in life.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.”
“He is a fire I long to burn in, a river I beg to drown in, a desert I search to get lost in.”
Source: Ashen Rose
“He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.”
“He is a fool who helps to make a woman wise.”
Source: Bellarion
“He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.”
“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals