H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his
own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent smile, the terror in the brightness with which she faced the world, or the reasons why she hid when she couldn't manage to beam... every moment she
spent in the world was full of panic, so she smiled and smiled and maybe once a week she locked the door and shook and felt like a husk, like an empty peanut-shell, a monkey without a nut.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“He needed her to understand. He needed her to believe his words.
“There’s a difference between control and desire. Between respect and using. You need to know how special you are. How beautiful. And if any man doesn’t make you feel that, he doesn’t deserve you.”
Source: Necessary Action
“He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.”
Source: Into the Wild
“He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.”
Source: Canada
“He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power.”
Source: Invisible Links
“He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man.”
Source: Way Station
“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“He needed the release of the tears, she thought but he'd forgotten the mechanisms of weeping after so many years of holding back.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“He needed to get over the threshold, find enough serenity to sleep. But he couldn’t quite step off that hedge.”
Source: Edge of Sundown
“He needed to hear her voice, needed to know she’s breathing and living. He needed to feel her heart was still his.”
Source: Hunted Honeymoon
“He needed to keep this woman with him. He didn't even know why the compulsion was so strong, but that need was relentless, bone deep. Soul deep.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“He needed to know she wanted to be with him. He needed to know someone loved him. He didn't believe himself worthy of love, so he had a difficult time believing she really wanted to be with him.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“He needed to relax. That’s what everyone told him. But then, for the most part, everyone was a fool, and the holidays were the least relaxing time of the year.”
Source: First Christmas at Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Sequel
“He needed to taste her like he needed his next breath.”
Source: Running from the Past
“He needed to wear that bell around his neck and randomly intone, “Unclean,” to warn people.”
Source: Freefall
“He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.”
Source: The Snow Queen
“He needs both patience and speed.”
“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
Source: The Help
“He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.”
Source: THE SHINING
“He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.”
“He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.”
“He needs to go rub his soul against life.”
Source: The Lacuna
“He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.”
“He [Neil] didn’t realize he’d fallen asleep until a gunshot jarred him awake. Neil bolted upright so fast he sent his pile of textbooks crashing to the ground. Too late he realized the crack he’d heard wasn’t a gun but the lock snapping undone on the suite door.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“He [Neil] knew he didn't deserve this, knew beyond a doubt he wasn't good enough to play on this court, but he wanted and needed it so badly he ached all over.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.”
Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature
“He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.”
“He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the way a journalist ought to behave. You ought not to be going around to people volunteering your feelings. That's daily journalism.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“He never become a true professional, though, and fell into traps of the sort that enthusiastic amateurs often do. These included pursuing impossible problems like trying to square the circle, trisect an angle, and double a cube, each of which Hobbes erroneously thought he had achieved.”
Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
“He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.”
Source: Saturday
“He never believed in miracles until he met her.”
“He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.”
“He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him.”
“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.”
Source: This Side of a Wilderness
“He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
“He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.”
Source: Shopgirl
“He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)”
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.”
Source: Flesh & Bone
“He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.”
Source: Collected Short Stories
“He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made him unwilling to forget grudges.”
“He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.”
Source: Maurice
“He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.”
“He never falls into the trap of the word "freedom".”
“He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.”
Source: East of Eden