H Quotes
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“He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. He uses these occasions to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“He is never the one to rest on his laurels. He constantly scans the horizon for new peaks to conquer. Complacency is a foreign language to his ears. He speaks fluently in the dialect of excellence. He is an extraordinary man who always excels at all levels—an embodiment of brilliance among the best.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.”
“He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“He is no fool who gives up what he wants to get what he needs.”
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
“He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.”
“He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
Source: Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd
“He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.”
“He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”
“He is no longer the prince moon; he is the one of the stars. (Il n'est plus le prince lune ; il est celui des étoiles)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“He is no true knight, but he saved me all the same,” she told the mother. “Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him -Sansa”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)”
“He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
Source: The Idler
“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“He is not a forgiving tutor, and he doesn't know how to be nice. Kevin can piss anyone off on an Exy court, up to and including a drugged Andrew. Well, anyone except Renee, but she's not human so she doesn't count."
Neil looked at Andrew again. "I thought his medicine made that impossible."
"Spring was a learning experience." Nicky propped his racquet against his shoulder and started for the door. "Wish you'd seen it. Andrew would've taken Kevin's head off if Kevin hadn't already thrown Andrew's racquet halfway across the court. I can't wait to see how you handle it.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
“He is not a ‘super-stealth’ or a ‘fighting evil’ kind of dragon. He is a ‘but do the bad guys know about pandas because then I bet they wouldn’t be evil anymore’ kind of dragon.” “Well, but,” Sky protested, “I mean … pandas! Have you SEEN pandas?”
“He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.”
“He is not always at ease who laughs.”
“He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.”
Source: The New Land
“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”
“He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.”
“He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. I’m general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about each other, period. You cannot spend your life with someone without curiosity. It is as devastating as infidelity, yet somehow working in a slower, gentler, more insidious way. It is being unfaithful to your own life”
Source: But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits – A Tender and Funny Gen X Memoir on Divorce and Love
“He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. In general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about each other, period. You cannot spend your life with someone without curiosity. It is as devastating as infidelity, yet somehow working in a slower, gentler, more insidious way. It is being unfaithful to your own life”
Source: But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits – A Tender and Funny Gen X Memoir on Divorce and Love
“He Is Not Dead
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away.
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.
And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn
For an old-time step, and the glad return,
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here.
Think of him still as the same. I say,
He is not dead—he is just away.”
“He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.”
“He is not dead, he is just - away.”
Source: The James Whitcomb Riley Reader: Selected, Graded, and with the Suggestions for the Observance of Riley Day
“He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.”
Source: The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
“He is not driven by animosity. He does not harbour grudges or negativity. He is a garden where love blooms freely.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more”
“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.”
Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“He is not Enzo, I remind myself. But I don't want him to be. With Enzo, my energy yearned for his power and ambition, all too happy to let him take me into the darkness. But with Magiano... I am able to smile, even to laugh. I am able to sit here and lean back and point out the constellations.”
Source: The Rose Society
“He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.”
“He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.”
“He is not great who is not greatly good.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.”
“He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.”
Source: Disgrace
“He is not here. Where did it go, my grief, my grief?
Once you loved me on a hillside. I was pretty
and tender as silence. Some things I knew well enough:
first you love and then you lose.
I had no idea there was nothing more.”
Source: Heaven
“He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815
“He is not in my bed, you may be sure. Feel free to search beneath the blankets.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.”
“He is not like everyone else. He does not question the extent of his influence. Wherever he is present, he creates a good ambience. You can easily tell that he is a blessed man who understands his impact.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“He is not my medicine.”
Source: Never Look Back