H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Haply a woman's voice may do some good
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.”
Source: Henry V
“Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.”
Source: Othello
“Haply, it is not nefarious to be far from a noxious relation, paradoxically, though it is honey”
“Hapo basi - kijikeki. Kwa nini wewe upate kidogo? Sagamoyo ni kwenu, sherehe ni zenu, ufanisi ni wenu na keki kubwa ni ya kina nani?
Uhalisia wa mambo umekusibu; fungua macho uone. Keki ya uhuru imeliwa kwingine, mwaletewa masazo.”
Source: Kigogo
“Happen to things, don't let things happen to you”
“happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Happened?" he echoed, one brow attempting to lift further. "And how does that just 'happen'? You two were naked together and you-what?-fell on him? Repeatedly?”
Source: In Pain and Blood
“Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.”
“Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.”
“Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of them not being properly fed so they are nothing but muscle and bone to begin with, thinking that if they just do good enough, maybe, just maybe, someday they will actually belong.
Mostly what I see is once they've been used up--in some cases broken beyond repair--they're thrown away like all the battered farm equipment you see sitting in the back of farmyards, back by the windbreak."
- Cash Blackbear in Girl Gone Missing”
Source: Girl Gone Missing
“Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.”
“Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.”
“Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.”
“Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.”
Source: The Excursion and The Recluse
“Happier than a cat in a Peruvian fish market.”
“Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body.”
“Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body”
“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”
“Happiest birthday leapers—realize this, leapers are exceptional gems, born in a leap year—and guess what? They age 4 times slower than everyone else! To my leapers, greater grace, more wins.
All my love,
Mercy Seaphrora IV”
“Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn) Happy for you, bonebag…It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik) It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn) I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik)”
“Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.”
“Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.”
“Happiest Person In The World Who Appreciates
Other”
“Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.”
Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II
“Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.”
Source: The Crown
“Happily ever after doesn’t just happen because you’ve found the love of your life. Happiness is a personal choice.”
Source: The Missing Manual to Love, Marriage and Intimacy: A Proactive Path to Happily Ever After
“Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.”
Source: The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults
“Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it's always worth the fight.”
“Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.”
“Happily ever after never happens in the second act.”
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.”
Source: Fangirl: A Novel
“Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”
Source: Angels Fall
“Happily everafter is a disney myth,
In real life there's only messy evernow.
Master the craft of surfing the mess,
World will bathe in your sapient glow.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?”
Source: Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)
“Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society.”
“Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.”
“Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs wrapped in wrinkled silk.”
“Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.”
“Happily, we do the work.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.”
“Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.”
Source: A moment's liberty: the shorter diary
“Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.”
“Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.”