H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He used to be like a Snake Oil Salesman in the wild west
hawking his wares in the town square
as if at the carny.
Branded tower condos. Steaks. Deodorant. Water. Vodka.
Ostensible educations--those were pure scam.
Sneakers. Playing cards. NFTs. Bibles.
Swatches of his found-guilty suit.
A Used Car salesman
selling cars designed to run just long enough off the lot
to get him the bucks and the battle win
and plow down everyone around him.
But now he's desperate,
losing even his ability to coerce and con,
which is the only ability he ever had.”
“He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and not enough that. He found himself acting like everyone else, even though his heart wanted to express itself in ways that felt different than much of what he was seeing in the world.
His heart grew louder, and he longed to taste a different kind of freedom, one his mind had worked hard to contain in order to keep him feeling safe. But that safety came with a price: his authenticity. Then it occurred to him, some people would judge him no matter who he was or what he did.
And that if he was going to be judged anyway, he may as well live his life as authentically as possible and at least be judged for his truth. He also knew some people would love him no matter who he was or what he did, and how much better it would feel to be loved for being real.”
“He used to say that he would open this door in the ay they would open a book, entering a world beyond their imaginings.”
Source: The Lost Bookshop
“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.”
“He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.”
Source: The Penalty
“He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
“He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.”
Source: State of Wonder
“He used to tell her... that it was because Russia had left a chill in his bones. Lola Plum believed it, only because sometimes he'd get a very distant and apathetic look around his eyes and he'd sting her with some harsh truth. Always he apologized for it, but she had never blamed him, only the cold of his Russian heritage.”
Source: Second Coming
“He used to tell me that there's not time in this life to be scared. He said to breathe your fear right in and turn it wild and then you'll never be scared of nothing.”
Source: The Ones That Disappeared
“He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”
Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi
“He used to watch her running in races against her girlfriends, with her hair bouncing against her back. She always ran with such determination. Even then, he could tell that she wasn't one of those silly, smiley girls. But when she did smile it took his breath away.”
Source: The Journey Begins
“He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.”
“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”
“he uses my body
to make his dream come true”
Source: you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“He uses our past to positively affect our present and secure our future.”
“He uses the resources at his disposal to change lives. Lives shift under his touch like tides that respond to the moon's silent command. Whether he has meagre resources or abundant wealth, he makes an impact.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He uses time effectively, because he is a fruitful man. For him, the focus is on extraordinary fruitfulness.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He utilizes
form for a striking lecture;
young poets shiver
inexperience,
but thaw over their own work,
fertilize magic.”
“He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forcing her to stare at him. His voice was savage. "For twelve years I have been in constant torment, wanting you in my arms and believing it would never be possible. I want you for a thousand reasons other than your legs, and...no, damn it, I want you for no reason at all, other than the fact that you're you. I want to shove myself deep inside you and stay for hours...days...weeks. I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
Source: Again the Magic
“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known.”
Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
“He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage
“He veered toward them and charged full speed into the crowd. He began biting into any piece of flesh that was not covered by clothing.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He very nearly stole a scene in my movie, and I didn't call him on it because I was just like, Hey, I saw some stuff on SuperDeluxe and how many different films do you have on there? And he goes, This one, this one, Comedy by Numbers and this one and one called 'Bob Pitches a Movie.' And I'm like, Oh! And then I was thinking he would say, which is very similar to the one to the one I did in your movie, but he never did. I just let it go. I don't care.”
“he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.”
“He viewed us, as we passed him by,
With calm and yet with questioning eye,
But moveless still, as though the stone
Were portion of his being's own.”
“He views life with tenderness and determination.”
“He visited the weavers and tailors with his brother, choosing garments with cuffs of feathers and exquisite embroidery, with collars as sharp as the points of his ears, and fabrics as soft as the tuft of his tail- a tail he tucked away, for it showed too much of what he schooled his face to hide. A poisonous flower displays its bright colours, a cobra flares its hood; predators ought not to shrink from extravagance. And that was what he was being polished and punished in to being.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“He visto atracos y personas arrolladas. Y motos rodando por la acera, a contravía, y por el pedacito de avenida que queda entre el autobús que se detiene y la acera. Y motos rodando por la acera. Y motos rodando por la acera. De policías, de ladrones, de trabajadores, de vagos... motos rodando por la acera.”
Source: Objetos no declarados
“He visto cosas increíbles y por fin creo de verdad en el socialismo.”
“He visto ejecutivos dormir en cajeros después de un divorcio y abuelas robando cobre. La crisis nos iguala a todos, Irene. La vida es creativa jodiendo a la gente.”
Source: Fuera del Registro
“He visto las letras que has grabado y he pensado: "Eso es un nombre". Como si la piedra se hubiera vuelto transparente. Una palabra y todo se ilumina.”
“He visto más verdad en mis caídas que en todos mis triunfos”
“He vivido este día antes y volveré a vivirlo, tal vez, en el futuro. Es necesario inventar una rutina, también –o sobre todo– mientras se acaba el mundo. Aferrarse a un conjunto de rituales, recorridos, personas a cuyo lado volver para reconocernos.”
Source: El baile y el incendio
“He vivido muchas mentiras porque no soporto la debilidad que engendra la ira y no puedo aceptar la irracionalidad del amor.”
Source: Blood And Gold
“He vivido tanto que un día
tendrán que olvidarme por fuerza.”
Source: Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition
“He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“He wagged his tail, and his whole body tingled. He realized the emptiness inside was not filled with happiness. Blue felt a glow within that was a result of more than just the warm sunshine on a spring day.
It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. It was much, much more he knew. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for.
He had found more than his true heart's desire...
He had found a forever home!”
Source: Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams
“He waited a few more seconds, hoping her tight jaw would unclench and she’d ask him to stay, but she sat staring down the empty track.
There was nothing for him to do but walk away. The drum of his boot heels as he left Amanda and Lydia behind sounded like the clang of the
door slamming shut on his prison cell in Lexington. Each step away from
them felt like a year added to his sentence.
Spence only walked about a hundred yards before he stopped. His chest ached so much he could hardly draw breath. He couldn’t do this.
He looked back over his shoulder at Amanda sitting on the bench. She held Lydia on her lap facing her, resting against her arms and looking up into her face. They were involved in an intimate, one-sided conversation.
He stood and stared. He couldn’t leave them, but Amanda had made it clear she didn’t want him. God, he would give anything if he could go
back and change the way they’d met. But how could he have done things
differently and still have met Amanda? If he hadn’t pretended to be Travis Baxter that day at the station, she never would’ve spoken to him at all. Spence couldn’t regret what he’d done nor could he condone it. It was a double-edged sword.”
Source: Perfecting Amanda
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“He waited until he heard sounds of sleep, which didn’t take long. Then he prayed, to the Devil.”
Source: Satan's Fan Club
“He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.”
“He waits.
"And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side.
Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,”
Source: Cold Kiss
“He waits by the hedge and nibbles his fingers and thumbs for a minute, chewing through burning memories, spitting chunks of skin and nail into the dark.”
Source: Shy
“He waits for you in the darkness…
And when he finds you, you can’t run and hide.
He will follow you, find you and then swallow you”
Source: It Follows You
“He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.”
Source: The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including the Ollapodiana papers, The spirit of life, and a selection from his various prose and poetical writings
“He wakes up in a different body.
Normally when it happens you don't remember all that came before, in the prior lives. But sometimes things get screwed up, there's a flaw in the machinery, and it doesn't work that way. Or maybe it isn't a mistake, it's done for a reason. As some believe, maybe there's a reason and purpose for everything.”
Source: The Visitor
“He walked across the room and flicked a switch. A spotlight turned on, illuminating a laminated poster of a woman on his wall. He took a crayon from his pocket and began drawing on it. I could see smudges from past demonstrations. [. . .] His dashed lines crisscrossed the woman's chest as if he were planning a military maneuver on undulating terrain.”
Source: Orphan Number Eight
“He walked and let the rain kiss him.”
Source: Velvet Was the Night