H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with Him”
“He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.”
“He knows when we go into the storm, He watches over us in the storm, and He can bring us out of the storm when His purposes have been fulfilled.”
Source: Looking Up When Life Gets You Down
“He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.”
“He knows your name. Not Libby, not Elizabeth Sinclair. Your true name, the one at the heart of you that has never been spoken. He knows you, and He calls you by it. You, in all your uniqueness. You, in all that makes you different from others. You, in all that you have in common with them. He knows you, and He calls you by name. He knows how you fit into this world.”
Source: The Nature of a Lady
“He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.”
Source: Up in the Air: A Novel
“He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.”
“He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his ring. “Why are you so sweet?” I asked, my voice small. My heart beat rapidly, and every star peeping through the clouds seemed to be shining just for me. “I don’t think I’m that sweet. I mean, I just told you to be quiet. That’s one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.” “You know what I mean.” Seth pressed another kiss to my forehead. “I’m sweet because you make it easy to be sweet.”
Source: Succubus Dreams
“He laced his hands behind his neck and propped his boots on the opposite arm of the sofa. If an artist were to capture this image, it would have been labeled,Smugness: A Portrait. She wanted to shake him.”
Source: Romancing the Duke
“He laces our fingers and shrugs. And I’m dead. I am actually dead. There’s no other way to explain it. I’m sitting in fucking Herald Square, holding hands with the cutest boy I’ve ever met, and I’m dead. I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died. And now my mouth isn’t working. It's like I'm stunned into silence. That never happens.”
Source: What If It's Us
“He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.”
Source: JAMAICA INN
“He lacks determination and perseverance who, tries a thing once and concludes that it is impossible to achieve. Such a man would never achieve anything of worth in his life.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”
“He ladled the borscht into bowls and topped each with a dollop of sour cream and a sprig of fresh dill- very attractive, Rachel thought, both the presentation and the look of concentration on his ridiculously handsome face.
That thought made her struggle to hold back her smile as he brought the bowls to the table. The meat had been arranged on the platter in an elegant swoop of mushroom sauce with more drizzled over the top. He'd gone to some trouble to think it through and make it restaurant-worthy. The fact he'd given it so much effort only put more weight behind her smile.
He swept his hand toward the table and pulled her chair out for her. "Shall we eat then?"
"This looks amazing." She was rewarded with a pleased smile from him.
It was amazing, actually, especially considering he claimed he didn't cook. The borscht held just the right amount of sweetness, the beets tender but still fresh and bright, finely diced pork giving it further flavor. The dumplings, colored green from the spinach in the dough, were tender with a delicious filling.”
Source: The Saturday Night Supper Club
“He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.”
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.”
“He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.”
“He landed, and the weapons were already lifted, held with a deadly poise that was like no girl, nor no man either. The greatest warrior of his generation.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.”
Source: The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
“He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you feel any better?" "Trust me," Isabelle said, placing a hand on his chest, just over his unbeating heart. "I feel better already.”
Source: City of Glass
“He lashed the belt against my ass again, and I was starting to feel like I was some supernatural being that was more than he was. He was just human, but I felt like something from heaven, an angel from the stars, that had come down to grace him with my presence.
How beautiful lust is, when it makes you feel this way. Have you felt this yourself, do you know what I mean?”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“He last, late guest
To the gate we followed;
Goodbye – and the rest
The night-wind swallowed.
House, garden, street,
Lay tenfold gloomy,
Where accents sweet
Had made music to me.
It was but a feast
With the dark coming on;
She was but a guest –
And now, she is gone.”
“He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.”
“He later remarked at the end of his Royal Institution lecture-demonstration in May 1901 that ''It was when I came on this mute witness of life and saw an all-pervading beauty that binds together all things - it was then that for the first time I understood the message proclaimed on the banks of the Ganges thirty years ago - 'they who behold the One, in all the changing manifoldness of the universe, unto them belongs eternal truth, unto none else, unto none else.'
Such statements caused as much of a stir as did his painstaking results. Geddes described Bose's interaction with Sir Michael Foster, a veteran Cambridge physiologist, who asked why the Indian showed him a graph with the 'curve os muscle response' to electrical stimulation, something he already knew about. Delighted, Bose replied, 'Pardon me; it is the response of metallic tin.”
Source: Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
“He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.”
Source: Mirror's Edge
“He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her—his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light. She was smiling, her tears feeling fresh on her face. He smelled of sweat and roses. She felt it in the palms of her hands, in her loins. It was right. It was Southampton she had wanted all along.”
Source: The Heavens
“He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.”
Source: Running from Scandal
“He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.”
Source: Last Day of the Last Furlough
“He laughed, and the sound of his laugh hurt Katherine.”
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train
“He laughed and tightened his hold on her, suddenly conscious of the fact that he’d crossed an
invisible line.”
Source: Unexpected
“He laughed because he was free.”
Source: The Good Earth
“He laughed for a brief second and looked around to check if nobody was there and then asked me, “You really want to know?”
“Yes, I do” I replied. Everything about him was so interesting and mysterious that I wanted to know more.
“Then come closer” He requested.
As I went close to him, he whispered in my ear, “My connection to other dimension appears as madness to them. I see what they cannot see. I feel what they cannot feel. Don’t share with them they won’t believe you” He replied with a wink.”
Source: Canvas of Life
“He laughed. It was a great laugh, all low and dark and rich. If chocolate cake had a laugh, it would be like that.”
Source: Funny You Should Ask
“He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.”
Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962
“He laughed, rested his forehead on hers, and whispered on her lips, “You have stars in your eyes.”
“I can see fine through them.” She smiled at him. “They just brighten things up.”
Source: Not A Book
“He laughed. She recognised the laugh, but didn't entirely like it. She had forgotten how often during their relationship Dan's humour hinged on other people, specifically Nora. When they'd been together, she had tried not to dwell on this aspect of his personality. He'd had so many other aspects — he had been so lovely to her mum when she was ill, and he could talk at ease about anything, he was so full of dreams about the future, he was attractive and easy to be around, and he was passionate about art and always stopped to chat to the homeless. He cared about the world. A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“He laughed, slow and sexy. "Darlin', the only way this is ending is with me buried inside you.”
Source: Midnight Alias
“He laughed suddenly, a rough, light sound that filled the small space effortlessly, and Kieran let himself say the words in his head, examining them at every angle, let his tongue curl around the syllables and taste them, around the eight vowels and fourteen consonants, without making a sound:
If I am anything, it is light.
They all tasted oddly familiar.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“He laughed, then became serious once more. "Mary............"
The expression in his eyes set her heart pounding. "Yes?"
Twice he began to frame a sentence, and twice his voice seemed to fail him.
And she thought she understood. What could he possibly say to her now, when he was on the verge of leaving forever? Even something as simple as asking her to write to him carried a distinct sort of promis, the type of promise he was ten years and a half a world removed from being able to make.
She forced a polite smile and held out her hand. "Good luck, James."
Regret-and relief-flooded his eyes. he took her hand, cradling it for a long moment. "And to you."
It was foolish to linger. She slid her fingers from his grasp, turned, and began to walk away in the direction of the Academy. She'd gone about thirty paces when she heard his voice.
"Mary!"
She spun about. "What is it?"
"Stay out of wardrobes!"
She laughed, shook her head, and began to walk again. She was smiling this time.”
Source: A Spy in the House
“He laughed then. It was the first time I’d ever heard his laugh, a lovely dark sound that rippled through the air. “Well, that part definitely isn’t true.”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.”
“He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?" "My private jet." Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?" "I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower." "I prefer ma petite to flower.”
“He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.”
“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”
“He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.”
Source: Graceling
“He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh.”
“He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.”
“He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.”
“He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.”
Source: Beautiful Affliction