H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace.”
Source: A Thousand Ships
“He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention”
“He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.”
“He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.”
“He is lifeless that is faultless.”
“He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.”
“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”
“he is like
an icon, he is like a fantasy.
I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“He is like light and wisdom is his Gabriel.”
Source: الرومي ماضيا وحاضرا شرقا وغربا حياة جلال الدين الرومي وتعاليمه وشعره
“He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.”
“He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.”
“He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers
“He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.”
“He is living in the historic past, as he had planned and hoped to do—but not in eighteenth-century London. Instead he inhabits a more recent, private, and dismal era of his own history.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“He is lofty, and I am eminent.”
“He is lonely, even if he does not admit it. His way of life is nothing but an Outlet from Loneliness…”
Source: Outlet from Loneliness
“He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.”
“He is lucky to have all of you.'
'No,' she said softly- more gently than I'd ever heard. 'We are lucky to have him, Feyre.' I turned from the door. 'I have known many High Lords, ' Amren continued, studying her paper. 'Cruel ones, cunning ones, weak ones, powerful ones. But never one that dreamed. Not as he does.'
'Dreams of what?' I breathed.
'Of peace. Of freedom. Of a world united, a world thriving. Of something better- for all of us.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.”
Source: The Dead Father
“He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”
Source: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff
“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
“He is making for you a terrible sacrifice. Take my advice, Lady Chiltern, and do not accept a sacrifice so great. If you do, you will live to repent it bitterly. We men and women are not made to accept such sacrifices from each other. We are not worthy of them.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“He is malfunctioning, It's true. It's a shame that it's true, but it is. The question is what is the cause of the effect, or rather, the defect.”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Robots
“He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.”
“He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.”
Source: The First Codex
“He is Monroe's son." I pointed at Ren. "And he's your best hope to win this war." "He's what?" Shay's voice was dead quiet. I'm what?" Ren kept his own voice to a whisper, but the look he'd thrown me was a bit alarmed.”
Source: Wolfsbane
“He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues for friends. It's much harder to dismantle that world and to rebuild it somewhere else.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“He is most powerful who governs himself.”
“He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.”
“He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.”
“he is my blessing, and I am his blessing, and that is enough to bring down every missile thrown by fate - or shakespeare - to us”
Source: Juliet
“He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him."
"You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“He is my descendant," he growled. "You humiliated me!" His tone made him sound betrayed, as if I had broken a promise to him.
"Have better descendants then,”
“He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.”
Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.”
“He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“He is my friend.”
“Nobody ever gets betrayed by their enemy.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“He is my knight. Trying his best
to protect my soul, even though being with me has more than its share of both beauty and sadness. I’m not an
easy person to understand. My eternity, and the future that
I want us both to have,
is surrounded by flowers and
the sun. The infinity of
forever can be summed up
within the magic of a kiss
for that is love’s goal.”
Source: Watch For The Exit
“He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; by the way he thumps his tail at my smallest smile; by the way he shows his hurt when I leave without taking him. (I think it makes him sick with worry when he is not along to care for me.)”
“He is my quarry, my partner, my love.”
Source: Hunt the Wood
“He is my ruin. My complete and utter devastation.”
Source: Sound of Madness
“He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”
Source: Forbidden
“He is my vulnerability”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.”
Source: Babylon’s Ashes
“He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.”
“He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.”
“He is never cowardly.”