H Quotes
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“He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”
Source: Men of the Otherworld
“He obviously wanted to leave on a snappy comeback, but couldn’t think of one. I suppose he wasn’t ever called on to produce them in the ordinary course of things. After a moment of struggle, he just scowled and stalked out. I’m delighted to report my repaired door slammed shut on his heels beautifully.”
Source: A Deadly Education
“He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“He offered her power, money, status...
a giant prison, all in exchange
for only...her soul.”
“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”
“He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!”
Source: Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
“He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.”
Source: Son of a Itch
“He offered me his free hand, clear blue eyes sparkling. "Come on...let's go find ourselves the perfect tree."
I took his hand and leaned into his shoulder. Didn't he know I'd go anywhere with him?”
Source: Willow Point
“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.”
Source: The lightning thief
“He offers the honeycomb with one hand and shows the whip with the other.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It’s now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)”
“He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.”
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book One
“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
“He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.”
“He often liked to do this with a book – just flick through from start to finish, soaking up the pictures, catching the rhythm of the words, the sense of direction for where a story was headed – but he didn’t like to look too closely at the words, and he never raced ahead and read the last page.”
“He often reflected on his reluctance to extend the struggle to the Caribbean, and wrote in one of his many letters that it was 'more important to have peace than to liberate these islands. An independent Cuba would take a great deal of work.' Even Bolívar was not immune to the belief that a liberated Cuba might become another 'Republic of Haiti.”
Source: Cuba: A New History
“He often tells me “the Universe will provide.” But in all my years of life thus far, the Universe has yet to sign any of my checks.”
Source: Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together
“He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.”
“He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear.”
Source: Bleak House
“He on his way." "Maybe he'll bring a sword." "Maybe he'll bring a tank." I shook my head. "I hate being rescued." "Then why aren't we trying to get to the car?" "Because I hate being eaten even more.”
Source: Ashes of Honor
“He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.”
“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."”
“He once ran down the hall to show me a passage in the correspondence of Jane Austen in which she admits that good apple pie was a considerable part of her domestic happiness.”
Source: In the Cut
“He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.”
“He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.”
“He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“He once told me not to cry over him, that he wasn’t worth it. That he wasn’t worth being cared about by anyone else. That he was replaceable. Discardable. Trash.
That’s what the world decided he was, but the world never knew Sawyer Alston quite like I did. Despite my love of a lifetime allotting me only ten months’ time, despite Sawyer taking to heart all the wrong things in life, he only ended up being wrong about one thing.
He was worth it to me.”
Source: The Crush
“He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.”
Source: Seize the Night: A Novel
“He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.”
Source: Mythologies
“He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.”
“He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.”
“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”
Source: Goethe's Faust: An abridged version
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
“He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.”
“He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.”
“He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.”
Source: Creative Unity
“He only invited me because of you and Chase.' 'Right,' she said, following me inside. 'He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're all together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking-' 'He's never done any of that,' I said. Then, less confidently, 'Has he?”
“He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.”
Source: The spectator
“He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.”
“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.”
Source: Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures
“He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.”
Source: Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith
“He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.”
“He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations.
Solve all your problems through meditation.
Exchange unprofitable speculations for actual God-communion.
Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception.
Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life.
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Quote by Lahiri Mahasaya found on: pg333, Chapter 35: The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya, in the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Yogananda”
“He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.”
Source: Imaginary Kings
“He only mourns their child, who passed so swiftly from birth to death, exchanging one oblivion for another like a sleeper rolling over.”
Source: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
“He only moved to his own impulses, leaving his wife a cold, lonely and withered woman. This bothered Clarita for years -- how her father treated her mother with a lack of emotion, of connection. Santos never beat her mother, but he would give her a devastating look that caused her to wilt like a water-starved flower. Clarita recalled how as a little girl, she hid away in her room, beneath blankets surrounded by dirt-caked dolls, distressed that Santos would come in and destroy her with such a look.”
Source: The Republic of East L.A.
“He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.”
“He only profits from praise who values criticism.”