H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.”
Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening
“He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
Source: Beautiful Darkness
“He knew she couldn’t be a part of his imagination because his mind was not creative enough to imagine such beauty.”
Source: A Night at the Shanley Hotel
“He knew she'd seen. And there was some silent communication between them, but she didn't understand the language. Had never spoken it or been around a man who could convey so much without saying a single word.”
Source: It Happened One Summer
“He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not about to lose.”
Source: The Shield Prophecy
“he knew she was not a goddess, because she was much more. she was the glow from the way-beyond, and when he saw her light, felt her warmth, absorbed her energy, he knew with such a certainty, finally, what love truly was”
“He knew she was there before she even spoke, his body recognizing her presence with an immediacy that nine years apart hadn’t diminished.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.”
Source: Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge
“He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“He knew soon enough that it was of himself he was afraid, and that even, if he didn't take care, he should infallibly be more so.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.”
“He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“He knew that Arina didn't have underwear on and his eyes reminded her of it every second.”
Source: Two Months and Three Days
“He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.”
Source: Lady chatterleys lover
“He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.”
“he knew that fate was only a mythological concept”
Source: Watchers
“He knew that first-class passengers were accorded special status that moved them quickly through security checks and first onto planes. Airport and airline staff and security were less likely to concern themselves with first-class travelers, even if they were a disheveled man with blood on his jacket and a thirteen-year-old girl who couldn't seem to keep tears off her cheeks.”
Source: Nine Dragons
“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
“He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual identity; took other people’s jobs; or had no job and bummed off the state; or gave all the jobs to his relatives; that he could be a dentist or a shop-owner or a curry-shifter, but not a footballer or a filmmaker; that he should go back to his own country; or stay here and earn his bloody keep; that he worshiped elephants and wore turbans; that no one who looked like Millat, or spoke like Millat, or felt like Millat, was ever on the news unless they had recently been murdered.”
Source: White Teeth
“He knew that he still hoped for that small and half forgotten figure to fall in beside him. Leaning into the salt wind with his hands in his pockets and his clothes flapping. He’d seen him one final time in a dream. God’s own mudlark trudging cloaked and muttering the barren selvage of some nameless desolation where the cold sidereal sea breaks and seethes and the storms howl in from out of that black and heaving alcahest. Trudging the shingles of the universe, his thin shoulders turned to the stellar winds and the suck of alien moons dark as stones. A lonely shoreloper hurrying against the night, small and friendless and brave.”
Source: The Passenger
“He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had managed to have his luxuries.”
Source: The Professor's House
“He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.”
Source: Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge
“He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.”
Source: The House of the Spirits
“He knew that his day was coming to an end. On July 4, 1909, as he stood with friends on the roof of the Reliance Building, looking out over the city he adored, he said, "You'll see it lovely. I never will. But it WILL be lovely.”
Source: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.”
Source: The Book of Illusions
“He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future.”
Source: Parade
“He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.”
Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
“He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, she’d corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance men would happily follow her to the bowels of hell and swim across the lake of fire to get to her.”
Source: The Nightlife: Las Vegas
“He knew that Jael's pack would be chosen for the queen's mission because of him.”
Source: The Queen's Army
“He knew that just letting it swallow a few more spells would cause it to burst, but that didn’t seem satisfying enough to him in this moment of ultimate defiance. He didn’t know if Catti-brie and Entreri had left—but if not, it was their own fault, and so he didn’t care. He only cared about this moment before him, when he could punch Lolth—her avatar, at least—in the face.”
Source: Lolth's Warrior
“He knew that look and that feeling—like heartbreak, everyone knows it. It only takes the briefest of moments to recognize. After all, the unbridled sense of attraction is nothing less than extraordinary.”
Source: Crocodile Tears
“He knew that many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall live" and he hoped.”
Source: The Duchess War
“He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.”
Source: The Passenger
“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to look at her. It gave him a grim, horrible, and rather uncanny sensation to think that a vivid, lacerating life could go on when one sunk in unconsciousness, a life so real that it could cause tears to stream down the face and twist the mouth in woe, and yet when the sleeper woke left no recollection behind.”
Source: Christmas Holiday
“He knew that something had to change if he was going to be able to keep his job. Mouse decided to pray and ask for help.”
Source: The Friendly Mouse
“He knew that the price of safety was unresting vigilance”
“He knew that the stars shone only for him, that the sky existed only for him, and he tried to dismiss his brother's words; yet there was fear deep within his warped soul, for as he peered at the galaxy that belonged only to him, he felt what he always felt- nothing.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.”
Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone
“He knew that this was where he belonged at this moment in time. Fate had brought him here. Brought him to this woman whom he'd never forgotten.”
Source: Ambush Before Sunrise
“He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.”
Source: Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“He knew the saying was “the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach,” he was kind of counting on it working the other way around.”
Source: One More Kiss