H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was a bully and forfeited his life by coming after Garrick during Threshing. Though I wonder who it was that told Aaric, since if his father knew I highly doubt I'd still be in possession of my head”
Source: Iron Flame
“He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.”
“He was a captain in the air force, and now he is CEO of a security company. I didn't have time to find out more about him, but I'm sure he can tell you anything you need to know."
A wave of nausea crashed through Zara's gut when she recalled their conversation in the bar. I'll bet he's one of those wannabe military types who spends his weekends playing paintball with his geek friends, pretending he's the real deal. What had she been thinking? But that was the problem. She was always living in the moment, not thinking at all.
"Thank you for your service," she mumbled, her cheeks burning. She could only hope he'd been as drunk as she'd been and didn't remember the slight.
"Pleasure." The deep rumble of his voice made her toes curl. "I'm the real deal, after all.”
Source: The Singles Table
“He was a careful and capable leader who had gained respect for the traditional knowledge of native people during his service.”
Source: Endure By Alex Hutchinson & The Rise of Superman By Steven Kotler 2 Books Collection Set
“He was a chameleon. He could change his appearance in seconds. He was a master in disguise, and he could baffle the best in the game (read CIA, FBI, KGB, etc).
So, to the girl, what looked like a man looking into her eyes and playing the rituals of dating, was in reality the chameleon observing the entrance of the bar behind the girl, near where the group was busy celebrating.
It was all in his ingenious plan - to wait for Alex to enter the bar and then go for the kill!”
“He was a character.
A character who should still be here.
Damn it all to hell.
He should still be here.”
Source: Chasing Brooklyn
“He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“He was a chronomancer in managing his time, a true magician with it. He had duties, everyone has duties, but he knew that not everyone has to be late because of them.”
“He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.”
Source: The Stand
“He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.”
Source: The Girl Who Played with Fire
“He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father.”
“He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.”
“He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give.”
“He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.”
“He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him.”
Source: Gabriel's Redemption
“He was a coward at heart, and a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
Source: The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
“He was a criminal, but what he had done tonight was criminal, and there was a difference.”
Source: Fireman
“He was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song. He loved the one he was with. He was casual with a capital C.”
Source: Seduced by the Baron
“He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.”
“He was a dark and stormy knight. A latter-day rake with eyes the color of emeralds worth a queen's ransom. His smile promised voyages to the moon. And heaven alone knew how many females lay littered in his wake.
To a rousing burst of Rachmaninoff, he swept into my London flat one January evening and, with the hauteur of his greeting, captured my virgin heart forever and a day.
'Miss Ellie Simons? My car awaits. Shall we splurge on dinner or parking tickets?”
Source: Femmes Fatal
“He was a dark, handsome man. The kind who just needed a shave and he'd be perfect. His chiseled jawline was covered in stubble that was almost a full beard, his eyes were gold with a dark-brown perimeter, and he had curly raven-black hair combed back from his forehead. Overall, he had a definite Mediterranean look to him.
It was Deacon Tremblay.
She didn't need the internet to verify his identity. His picture, his profile, his every feature were embedded in the minds of all American women. Probably in the minds of international women too.”
Source: The Vanishing at Castle Moreau
“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.”
“He was a demon who dreamed of a Star..
She was a Star who dreamed of Falling..”
Source: Devils Fall
“He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now.”
Source: Twilight: Twilight
“He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t.”
Source: The Rachel Incident
“He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe it was an affront that any other man had one. That must be the truth.”
Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“He was a drug, and she needed a fix, a huge fix.
A very lengthy fix.”
Source: Dirty Salvation
“He was a dying king of the universe and she was the witch inside whose mouth was the last drop of elixir available in the universe. Yes, either that or nothing else could explain the fierce manner in which he attacked her lips”
Source: Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
“He was a faithful servant, and made himself so valuable to those who employed him that they will find it hard to fill his place. He was a good husband and father, so tender, wise, and thoughtful, that Laurie and I learned much of him, and only knew how well he loved his family, when we discovered all he had done for them, unsuspected and unassisted.”
Source: Little Men
“He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.”
Source: Tenth of December: Stories
“He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.”
“He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.
In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.
She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.
Erase the human.
In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.
Evan Walker had been undone.”
Source: The Last Star
“He was a firm believer that the best meals were made by holding dead things over a fire until they smelled good. As far as he was concerned, the tiny pile of twisted fruits and exotic extracts set before him was blasphemy.”
Source: Orconomics
“He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.”
“He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on but you can't quite say what. You flick it whenever you get home and inexplicably feel a sort of relief, promising yourself that you'll figure out the wiring one of these days, but not today. Today, you are a bit too busy and this curious switch isn’t hurting anything by being a mystery.”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.”
Source: Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings
“He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.”
Source: Mayflies
“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”
“He was a gemstone in the rough. not stunning at first glance, but with a great deal of worth beneath the surface. Sim was tender, kind, and attentive as any woman could care for. He made Fela deliriously happy. Sim was a prince.
By contrast, what did I have to offer? Nothing really. Less now. I was more like a curious stone that is picked up, carried a while, and finally dropped again with the realization that for all its interesting look, it is nothing more then hardened earth.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.”
“He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.”
Source: The Deptford trilogy
“He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.”
Source: I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)
“he was a gentleman on whom I built
an absolute trust.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“He was a god above her, powerful, beautiful, larger than life. The light brought out the latent gold of his hair. The shadows contoured the perfect form of his body. Light and shadows converged in his eyes, bright lust, dark anger, and something else. Something else entirely. She recognized it because she’d seen it in the mirror so many times: a bleak, austere loneliness.”
Source: His at Night
“He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“He was a god on fire. And he had come for her.”
Source: The Coven of Ruin
“He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.”
Source: Our Young Man
“He was a good-looking man with black hair and dark blue eyes, his handsomeness agreeably roughened by a scar or two, and a nose that had once been broken. He had the perpetually vigilant gaze of a man who was all too familiar with the more dangerous streets and rookeries of London. But when he was among family and friends, he had a quiet, relaxed charm that Merritt liked immensely.
As the illegitimate son of the late Earl of Trenear, Ethan was the most enigmatic member of the Ravenel family. Very little was known about his past, and he preferred to keep it that way. However, he was good friends with West Ravenel, who was married to Merritt's best friend, Phoebe, and Phoebe had told her a great deal about him.
"Ethan once worked as a government agent," Phoebe had said. "He was part of an intelligence force that was secretly funded by the Home Office. It had something to do with espionage and foreign intelligence, and one's better off not asking too many questions about it. But Ethan was a highly trained agent.”
Source: Devil in Disguise