H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.”
“He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air something of the new season. The smell of freshly turned earth and the odor of pine and sedge-smoke hovered over the land even after burning and plowing was done. He breathed deeply of it, filling his body with the invigorating aroma.”
Source: Tobacco Road
“He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head were precise and clear, their meaning was absolutely obvious. But when they emerged in the form of phrases, the superfluous husk simply fell away of its own accord and only the essential idea was left. Probably sometimes rather more fell away than ought to.”
“He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
“He knew then that the walls he built could keep others out forever but were too weak to keep him in. In that very moment, he discovered the fragility of his strength.”
Source: Song of the Wooden Sparrow
“He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.”
Source: Longinus the Vampire
“He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.”
Source: Exile's Return
“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
“He knew they didn’t have much time left, and that one day she’d walk out that door. Emma was never meant to be permanent, a warm breeze after the blizzard. Nothing more. Nick had prepared for that, told Skylar when she’d asked. He was ready for the return to working the rush alone and the lack of donuts to delight the customers. The business could survive without her. He just wasn’t so certain if his heart would.”
Source: Mistletoe Latte
“He knew this was bound to happen but he kept himself at a safe distance, though he saw it come in every possible form, in trees felled to make way for new streets or cities, in chemicals that mimicked the human cells to invade the body, in every huff and puff of a CO2-emitting vehicle. What about the evil armies raised in the robotics classes of kindergarteners? What about the fake food with which the children had been fed? What about the devil winning the people’s vote on a ticket of broken promises, empty threats, and outright lies and a mission to send them straight to hell?”
Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official
“He knew Timosha's views: tangling with skirts in serious business was like mixing jam with beet soup.
"Letting a woman visit you is one thing. But let her into your soul? Oh, no!" Timosha wagged his dry little finger in warning. "Once you let her in, you're done for. A woman, brother--she sends down roots like a weed. Before you know it, you'll be overgrown with weeds all over.”
Source: The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
“He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or how it was. Never in his life had he ever felt that quick response to anyone. Breathless and unable to look away from her, like if he did she would disappear.”
Source: Second Chances
“He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.”
Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.”
Source: A Fine and Private Place
“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things—but that didn’t mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.”
Source: Revelations: Number 3 in series
“He knew what poverty means. The chilling of brain and heart, the unnerving of the hands, the slow gathering about one of fear and shame and impotent wrath, the dread feeling of helplessness, of the world’s base indifference. Poverty! Poverty!”
Source: New Grub Street
“He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was not worth losing his ability to touch a unicorn.”
Source: Many Waters
“He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.”
“He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.”
“He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she'd have to say about it--how many stars she'd give it and why.”
“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.”
“He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.
'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall.”
Source: The Port-Wine Stain
“He knocked politely and entered the principal’s office with his dad face in full effect. He put his hand on my shoulder in a way that came off as both stern and proud. He was dad-ing it up for the principal, which I was actually a little grateful for, but it also made me mad.”
“He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.”
“He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.”
“He know that the act of forgiveness does not mean that he must accept everything; a Warrior cannot bow his head, for if he did he would lose sight of the horizon of his dreams.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.”
Source: Christian Ethicks
“He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.”
“He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing’s wrong.”
Source: A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
“He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.”
“He knows all my thoughts.
He knows all I’ve ever done
and He loves me all the same.
What is our purpose, you ask.
It is to love like God.”
“He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."”
“He knows all too well that love, regardless of the way it presents itself, is a miracle.”
Source: Too Good to Be True
“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”
“He knows different now. It's the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives. Thomas More had spread the rumor that Little Bilney, chained to the stake, had recanted as the fire was set. It wasn't enough for him to take Bilney's life away; he had to take his death too.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“He knows enough, the mariner, who knows
Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil,
What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds
He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause
Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave;
Whence those impetuous currents in the main
Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why
The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure
As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
“He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“He knows everything.He's just so ridiculously well-read that it's ridiculous! You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison.”
“He knows everything sitting at the bottom of the ocean. He knows your situation. He knows your hopes and dreams. He knows your struggles and stormy seas. He is all-knowing. He loves you with love everlasting. He is God All Mighty, and you can trust Him.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“He knows full well what she's thinking. He's waiting for her to say it out loud and violate the unspoken contract that covers white people who are doing everything short of tossing around the n-word in public. And hell, some even want that to be deniable.”
Source: The City We Became
“He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.”
Source: Circling: 1978-1987
“He knows her like man knows earth, touching the surface but unaware of her depth.”
“He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.”
Source: How to Live in Italy: Essays on the charms and complications of living in paradise