H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He may pretend to be running after wisdom, money, or power, but none of that matters. Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his SoulMate.”
“He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor’s open field.
He’s decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.”
“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”
Source: Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen
“He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they’d find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.”
Source: Love Irresistibly
“He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.”
Source: The Monster in the Hollows
“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”
Source: Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition
“He means well. He just doesn't know what he means well.”
“He meant for her to sit on his lap? She shook her head. "I couldn't."
"You wanted to try the role on for size, lovely," he said, the words warm and coaxing. "Come. Sit with me."
She knew without his having to say any more that this was her chance to experience it all. With Ralston.
She moved to stand directly in front of him and met his eyes. She did not say anything; she did not have to. Within seconds, he had pulled her down onto his lap and covered her lips with his.
There was no turning back.
She gave herself up to the adventure. And to him.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“He meant to find her, and make it so they would never part again. He lied to himself when he tried to believe it was curiosity and a desire to make sure she was okay that drove him to hunt her down time after time. It wasn’t about any of that really. He wanted her, and he waited for the chance to have her.”- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 38”
Source: Marked
“He meant to go lightly, cautiously, sweetly. First kiss, first date. But she curled her fingers in his hair, pressed her hot little body against his, and kissed him back as if they had been dating for a good long while! As if he wanted him like he wanted her.
Now this was more like it.”
Source: Jaguar Hunt
“He measures our lives by how we love.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like?
"We will hold hands," Morrie said. "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”
Source: Human Detritus
“He met Caire's eyes. "I hope we can finish this soon. I left your sister in my bed."
St. John swore under his breath and stepped between them, facing Val. "Are you insane?"
"Many think so,." Val was watching Caire, his lips twitching.
Caire hadn't moved. Only his eyes, hard and staring and trained upon Val, showed that he'd heard Val's words. Those eyes burned a bit like Séraphine's, Val mused, and he wondered if the other man truly meant to kill him this morning.
Well, he would certainly try.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he’d dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he’d seen her.”
Source: Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
“He met my gaze and held it, and I watched with fascination as the color of his irises seemed to swirl and ripple like ink in water. He was truly a beautiful creature, even more so with his skin glowing from the barest sheen of sweat. But the thought struck me then that he was as much something else as he was a man.”
Source: The Treasured One
“He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".”
Source: High-Rise
“He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'
-Olivia/Via thinking”
Source: Wonder
“He metido la pata muchas veces, y de tanto hacerlo, aprendí a sacarla.”
Source: Sonata para sordos
“He might all the same do a little something for us. We’re
on our backs, doesn’t He see?'
'I’m doing my best, I tell you,' said Father Julien. 'I pray and I pray and I pray . . .'
'Even we find a way of doing something for the may- beetles.’
'You don’t give a damn about the may-beetles, you bastards,' said Father Julien. 'You do it out of pride. If you weren’t in a forced labor camp you’d step on may-beetles without even noticing their existence. This is something that happens in the head, not in the heart. You’re bursting with pride, that’s what it is.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“He might, at last, be allowed to speak to Mary unguarded and learn a little more about her. He did not know why she had lodged herself so firmly in his mind but that she was so unlike the young ladies he usually met. So unlike her sisters! This was perhaps a part of it. He had sensed something in Mary that he knew all too well in himself: the pain of being overlooked by one’s immediate family. It was plain that Mary’s father preferred clever, outgoing Elizabeth and Kitty was her mother’s favourite. Mary was...Mary.
She is an enigma, Richard thought, letting the noise of his cousins’ conversation drop to a low lull at the back of his mind. And I am intrigued by her.”
Source: Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
“He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?”
Source: S is for Silence
“He might be faithless but I believe in him.”
Source: Love in the Time of Global Warming
“He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.”
Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“He might be mortal, but he was a skilled adversary, a dangerous foe with espionage skills that far surpassed even Denae’s.
As an ally, Henry was clever, shrewd, cunning, and brilliant. A perfect partner for the Kings.
“I’ll take him to safety if he’s such a danger here,” Rhi told Usaeil.
The queen lifted a black brow. “You surprise me again.”
“It’s my new thing.” Rhi looked down at her black nails with two small hearts painted in red—Big Apple Red—on each ring finger.”
Source: Night's Blaze
“He might be out of her skin, but she'd left him as something other than what he'd been before- not moral, but not strong enough to deserve the title of Dark King.”
Source: Ink Exchange
“He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.”
Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel
“He might be ten times more dangerous then Rhen, but he's a hundred times easier to get along with.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.”
Source: Against A Dark Background
“he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.”
Source: What I Saw and How I Lied
“He might have been alive. He might have been dead. Either way, he looked as though he'd belonged to the graveyard for a long time.”
Source: The Bell Tower Ghosts and Other Stories
“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”
“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”
“he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
“He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.”
“He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob last night, but he ws still a man.Every mob in every little Souhern town is always made up of people you know - doesn't say much for them, does it?'
'I'll say ot, ' said Jem.
'So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?' said Atticus. 'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.”
Source: Manners & Mutiny
“He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my
side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.”
Source: An Airship Named Desire
“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana
“He might have run off then, and thus avoided a great many adventures to come, but the girl cried, “Wait!” and he turned to face her. “Please,” she implored from the window. “Don’t go. Come with us. I promise you won’t regret it.”
For a moment, Peter stood in the road indecisively, staring into the girl’s eyes as if trying to penetrate a great mystery.”
Source: Peter: The Untold True Story
“He might have survived all this time only to have his healer kill him after all.”
Source: Lionheart
“He might have wished to teach me a lesson I desperately needed to understand, the best way he knew how. Because it wasn’t until I was the one doling out orders and praise that I realized how easy it was to do so. How natural. How right. To take care of the person who relied on you. To…be kind to them. To watch them.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“He might kiss like a damn sex god and rev her engine like no other, but he clearly wasn't for her.”
Source: Love Restored
“He might know things Meg wanted to learn, but he would never be as thorough about cleaning the salt and butter off her hands after movie night.”
Source: Murder of Crows
“He might look like a beast but Bree’s fingertips gliding over the evidence of his failure is what makes him forget just for a moment that he’s the monster who broke the world.”
Source: Twisted Fate
“He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen”
Source: MapHead 2