H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most—losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.”
Source: The Fifteenth of June
“He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness? Why was it given to one man to have such an awareness of God?”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“He possessed an uncanny ability to provoke me, stir my sensitivities, and ignite a blazing rage within me.”
Source: Bella Donna
“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
Source: La Fanfarlo
“He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“He possessed the ultimate trump card: a transcendent love for his home, what he called the "navel of the world," and a deep connection to its values, traditions, and teachings.”
Source: Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
“He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.”
“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.”
“He poured out his worries, all that kept him low. His heavies came out …his sad and lonely did go.”
Source: The Tale of The Little Black Cloud: A Heartfelt Children's Sadness Book on Friendship, Healing, and Emotional Resilience
“He poured some water on his hand from his own canteen and flung it at the brown snarlbrush. Wherever sprayed droplets fell, the brush grew instantly green, as if he were throwing paint. The brush wasn’t dead; it just dried out, waiting for the storms to come.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“He poured this to the brim with good bourbon (Miss Elling knew it was good bourbon because she had helped herself to a snifter from the flask during his luncheon absence on her third day in his employ) and spent ten minutes sipping the drink.”
“He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.”
“He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.”
“He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,”
“He prayed for her, she prayed for him, and God answered them both in His divine timing.”
Source: A Husband and Wife's Love Letter to God: How Pleasing God in Your Marriage Expresses Your Faith and Love to God
“He prayed for the day when he'd become her North Star, a trusted and true destination she longed for. He would then be awakened in the night and she would be there, not as an aberration but as safe a port as he had ever known and one he would never want to leave. He, in turn, would light her sky with a love she had never known, and would never need search for again.”
“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in his solitude——if that other Immensurable Loneliness which was God stretched forth Its hand to touch his own tiny human loneliness and to mark his vocation there.”
“He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.”
“He prayeth best who loveth best.”
“He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”
“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“He prays best who does not know that he is praying.”
“He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery
“He prays that God will enable him to be a reasonable man. He knows that such men are rare gems—his secret lies in selflessness.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.”
“He preaches well that lives well”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.”
“He preferido ser poco inteligible antes que inexacto”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“He preferred being compassionate to being correct.”
Source: THE FLAT MATES/FOES
“He preferred not to meddle with such problems, they were too discomfiting for him and would only land him in the most agonizing insecurity and disquiet, whereas to make use of one's reason one truly needed both security and quiet.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“He preferred smaller knives, but when you wanted to make a statement, you did it big. He wanted this man cowed and willing to talk.”
Source: Toxic Game
“He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor
“He preferred to give in the light,because when
it was dark, he was afraid his giving would go unnoticed”
“He preferred to remain in Chalkdene where he was well known and universally disrespected. Permanent residents employed him occasionally for work that did not demand intelligence, honesty or personal cleanliness.”
Source: The Sun Cure
“He prefers being alone on his island. (in refer to the Spitsberger hunter who acts as a watchman during the winter and sleeps through the arrival of the author.)”
Source: A Woman in the Polar Night
“He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“He prepared himself for the first glyph. Taking a deep breath, he aligned his mind with his goals, his will with his desires, and started down the winding path of power. A bolt of white sent his senses reeling in pain, and his nerves caught fire. Yellow shafts rained down on him, contorting his body into impossible forms. Orange beams seared his brain, a flood of cold that broke his essence. Red coils destroyed his thoughts, spiriting them away to the infinite. Blue spears cut into his flesh....Standing alone in a universe of pain, he drew his will about him, gathering himself into a shining star of desire that kept his shattered form from falling to despair.”
Source: Brothers Majere
“He presented a mask of indifference to the rest of the world, but for her--and their future children-- he would be different. He would share fun and laughter.”
Source: Leopard's Run
“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“He pressed a finger to her carotid and swore.
She was dead.
His target.
Dead.
Not on his watch was she gonna stay that way.
“You’re not dying today, lady.” He grabbed the switchblade knife from his jean’s back pocket, flicked it open, then cut down the front of her sweater. He pocketed the knife and clasped his hands together, then laced his fingers and pressed the heel of his hand to the middle of her sternum and began compressions.”
Source: Fallout
“He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.”
Source: A Gathering Light
“He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.”
Source: Brokeback Mountain
“He pressed his forearms flat against the wall, caging me with his body. Electric heat sparked in the space between us. He pulled back. His irises swirled with silver flecks, twisting into a metallic pool. His Wolf stared down at me. "I don't want anyone touching you, except me.”
Source: She-Wolf
“He pressed his lips against hers and closing his own eyes, ignoring the pain in his side, and the uncertainty in his chest he mouthed,
‘I love my Princess. I love my Jocelyn. Love you and only you from now until forever.”
Source: Forbidden
“He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.”
Source: Legend of Love
“He pressed his lips together and I saw the muscles of his jaw working. This was Peter's being-a-manager face. It meant he was figuring out how to help you.”
Source: Sourdough