H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.”
Source: Jenny Holzer: xenon
“Hands pulling me under, hands lifting me up, both mine.”
Source: Under Moonlight: 2025
“Hands speak more intimately than words," writes author André Aciman. He's discussing the deaf here, specifically his mother, but I immediately think about healthcare, about perinatal care specifically. Touch is intimate. It can excite, comfort, heal. It should also be welcome. [...] Entry to a person's body should occur by invitation only, never amid confusion, never by coercion.”
Source: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
“Hands speak more intimately than words," writes author Aundre Aciman. He's discussing the deaf here, specifically his mother, but I immediately think about healthcare, about perinatal care specifically. Touch is intimate. It can excite, comfort, heal. It should also be welcome. [...] Entry to a person's body should occur by invitation only, never amid confusion, never by coercion.”
Source: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
“Hands that have known love
How can they be so cold to touch?
Maybe, they are in a frosty layer of loneliness.
Can you offer them a cup of hot tea?”
“Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.”
“Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.”
“Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
“Hands- there were hands on my shoulders, shaking me, squeezing me. I thrashed against them, screaming, screaming-
'FEYRE.'
The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it.
'Open your eyes,' the voice ordered.
I did.
My throat was raw, my mouth full of ash, my face soaked and sticky, and Rhysand- Rhysand was hovering above me, his eyes wide.
'It was a dream,' he said, his breathing as hard as mine.
The moonlight trickling through the windows illuminated the dark lines of swirling tattoos down his arm, his shoulders, across his sculpted chest. Like the ones I bore on my arm. He scanned my face. 'A dream,' he said again.
Velaris. I was in Velaris, at his house. And I had- my dream-
The sheets, the blankets were ripped. Shredded. But not with a knife. And that ashy, smoky taste coating my mouth...
My hand was unnervingly steady as I lifted it to find my fingers ending in simmering embers. Living claws of flame that had sliced through my bed linens like they were cauterising wounds-”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”
“Hands up.” The voice was low, male, and carried a smoothness to the syllables. “I’ve always wanted to say that.”
Source: Ignite the Stars
“Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.”
“Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.”
“Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.”
“Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.”
“Handschrift ist so vieles, aber ist doch nichts in einer Welt in der Schrift beinahe nur noch in Form von Pixeln existiert.”
“Handshakes and hugs will always trump likes and shares.”
“Handshakes, Hugs & Other Touching. Learning how to touch appropriately can elevate your presentation, demonstrate respect, and convey confidence.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Handshaking is about balance, really, between the limp fish shake and the bone-crushing vise. Perhaps someday I'll graduate to the two-handed shake that a spry nun once gave me at a soup kitchen, her hands cupped around my own with a gentle press, as though listening to me was all she wanted to do.”
“Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'”
Source: Black Is the New White
“Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.”
“Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat”
“Handsome guy, Victor, in a brutal, black-Irish way. Like most New York bartenders, he was really an actor, or was it the reverse? ("Novelty")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.”
“Handsome is as handsome does”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…”
Source: The Mercies
“Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.”
“Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model”
“Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.”
“Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.”
“Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“handwritten letters, direct eye contact, stolen smiles and the art of listening to your heart was the original social media...”
“Handwritten letters make you realize how bad your writing is but how clean is your heart which still feeds hope.”
“Handy, humans, Rowl thought. Clumsy, slow, and not always terribly bright, but they were very very strong, through sheer, inarguable mass. He now saw his father's wisdom in desiring to keep a few of them around the home tunnels. They could manage annoying problems that might prove awkward and time-consuming for cats.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“Hang 'em first, try 'em later.”
“Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.”
“Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.”
“Hang him, swaggering rascal!”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”
Source: Lord Jim
“Hang in there, as better times are ahead.”
“Hang in there! Have the courage to pursue your dreams on earth, and never let fear hold you back. Hard work paves the road to greatness.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!”
“Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.”
“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
“Hang in. We’ll make it. We all have each other.”
Source: Friends Forever
“Hang in, keep cool, and stay who you are. Things will improve.”
“Hang Irish harpers wherever found.”
“hang me/like a dead rose/preserve me/and my petals won't fall/until you touch them/and i dissolve”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Hang on! Don’t give up.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind