H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He wants everything to be so simple—as, alas, it never is in real life!”
Source: Invitation to a Beheading
“He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wants to lie down on the bed with her and have her curl into him. He wants to hold her as she breathes softly through the night; to see her as no one else sees her: vulnerable and asleep. To see her and to be seen.”
“He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.”
“He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man deserves. He wants in fact to be man's partner, his almighty and compassionate Saviour. He chooses to give man the benefit of His power, which encompasses not only the high and the distant but also the deep and the near, in order to maintain communion with him in the realm guaranteed by His deity. He determines to love him, to be his God, his Lord, his compassionate Preserver and Saviour to eternal life, and to desire his praise and service.”
Source: The Humanity of God
“He wants me gone, Catelyn thought wearily. Kings are not supposed to have mothers, it would seem, and I tell him things he does not want to hear.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“He wants me to be charmed by him so that I will stay by his side and do what he asks of me. No doubt he believes that a little attention and a few smiles will be all it requires of him. He expects me to be as malleable as one of the ladies of the Court.
So much of me wants to give in and pretend with him that it makes me hot with rage.
If he wants to charm me, the least I can do is make it cost him. I won't settle for smiles and a dance. I am going to call his bluff, I am going to prove to myself- prove to us both- that his flirtation isn't sincere.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“he wants my body to function
not my soul to live”
Source: you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.”
“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”
Source: The English Patient
“He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition
“He wants to be gentle and take his time and savor every inch of her. He wants to run his fingers through her hair and tease her to the point of unraveling and give her everything she could ever ask for because she deserves no less.
But he also wants to have her wet on his cock and screaming his name and whimpering nonsense as pleasure overwhelms her senses. He wants to drag his fingers over her skin and mark her with hard kisses and hold her down as orgasm shakes her body.”
Source: Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love
“He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.”
Source: The Thief Lord
“He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.”
“He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.”
“He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“He wants to know everything about her.
How she spends her time when not performing.
How she interacts with her audiences.
How she takes her tea.”
“He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.”
“He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.”
Source: A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
“He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.”
Source: Night
“He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.”
Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals
“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.”
Source: Every Day in His Presence
“He wants you,” Lindsey said. “Physically and otherwise. Maybe you only need to remind him that you can handle yourself.” “How?” “Girl, you’re the Sentinel of this House, and you’ve been trained by Catcher and Luc and Ethan. He’s in the training room right now. Get down there and kick his ass.” I smiled slyly. Now, that was a plan that made sense.”
Source: Biting Cold
“He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“He warmes too neere that burnes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love.”
Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“He warned me of the lion's den and I am glad I didn't listen.”
“He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.”
“He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.”
“He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.”
Source: ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more
“He was 45 years old, with a very fine physiognomy, rather pretty eyes, but a revolting mouth and revolting teeth, a pale, hairless body, a small but shapely arse, and a prick 5 inches around by 6 inches long.”
Source: The 120 Days of Sodom
“He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.”
“He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father’s knee being inducted into the world of abusive epithets.”
Source: The Long Glasgow Kiss
“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”
“He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had cut off his wings.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“He was a big, bad dragon shifter, a breed of male she realized took Neanderthal to a whole new level.”
Source: The Rogue King
“He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.”
Source: A gift horse, and other stories
“He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the insatiable appetite of fifteen.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
“He was a boy breaking out and into himself at once. That's what I wanted—not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger. Then I wanted more, the scent, the atmosphere of him, the taste of French fries and peanut butter under the salve of his tongue, the salt around his neck from two hour drives to nowhere and a Burger King at the edge of the county, a day of tense talk with his old man, the rust from the electric razor he shared with that old man, how I would always find it on the sink in its sad plastic case, the tobacco, weed and cocaine smoke on his fingers mixed with motor oil, all of it accumulating into the afterscent of wood smoke caught and soaked in his hair, as if when he came to me, his mouth wet and wanting, he came from a place on fire, a place he could never return to.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“He was a boy in love with another man’s woman and took on a job bigger than he was.”
Source: Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
“He was a boy made to be conquered, maybe even saved. But not by Lulu. She was neither a knight or a Nightingale. She was a girl made to be selfish. She would have her own adventures.”
Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For
“He was
a boy she met in the rain.
a man she kissed at lovers lane.
and an old soul her heart never wanted to unchain.”
“He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts
“He was a boy, she was a girl,
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was a punk, she did ballet,
What more can I say?
He wanted her, she'd never tell,
But secretly she wanted him as well.”
“He was a bricklayer; for fifty years, in Italy, America, France, then again in Italy, and finally in Germany, he had laid bricks, and every brick had been cemented with curses. He cursed continuously, but not mechanically; he cursed with method and care, acrimoniously, pausing to find the right word, frequently correcting himself and losing his temper when unable to find the word he wanted; then he cursed the curse that would not come.”
Source: If This Is a Man / The Truce
“He was a broad-shouldered beast.”
Source: Feversong