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 wise man who invented God.”
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”
Source: The Lucky One
“He was a wooden puppet. Some kind of marionette, Marra thought, the kind that traveling performers used to entertain very young children. He had the carved hands and the clacking jaw, the articulated arms and legs. But the only string on him was a black cord that looped Miss Margaret's throat, and the puppet held it in one hand.
He moved as they watched. It was a slow, considered movement, like a tortoise turning its head in the sun, and it set Marra's nerves crawling.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.”
Source: Poems
“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate
“He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .”
Source: Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic
“He was a writer and words were his weapons.”
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
“He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.”
Source: The Book of Masks
“He was able to capture my heart, but unfortunately, he didn’t like to play by the rules. He knew I was fragile, but he dropped me anyways.”
Source: Royals
“He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.”
Source: The Real Thief
“He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.”
Source: Silence
“He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.”
“He was about the touchiest guy I ever met. Everything you said made him sore.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The one society demanded no one cross. He crossed the point on many occasions. This would be different. This could land him in prison or the electric chair. The prospect filled him with sexual energy he normally lacked”
Source: Justice of the Fox
“He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.”
“He was absolutely alone in this clammy impenetrable darkness.”
Source: Don't Read: A Gripping Horror Story With Shocking Riddles And An Unexpected Twist
“He was absolutely beautiful. His wings were a waterfall of colors, mostly blue and silver, with subtle lavender undertones, creating a visual feast. His body was more silver than anything, his scales glittering, and the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. God, she wanted to see him in the air, soaring.”
Source: Sentinel of Darkness
“He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.”
Source: Seconds Before Sunrise
“He was actually glad to be alone with his silence and the remains of those who had died. These men hadn’t cared about the squabbles of those born with lighter eyes than they. These men had cared about their families or—at the very least—their sphere pouches. How many of them were trapped in this foreign land, these endless plateaus, too poor to escape back to Alethkar? Hundreds died each week, winning gems for men who were already rich, winning vengeance for a king long dead.”
Source: The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“He was acutely aware then that he was closer to his future than he was with the memories of his past.”
Source: TITLE 13: A Novel
“He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“He was addicted to the dopamine high that came with the feeling of a bet hanging on the outcome of a game, having a stake in something he could not control. “Since I started gambling, I could turn every day—no matter how much work/school/ stress I had into the most exciting day of the year,” he later wrote in his journal. He would bet in the shower. He would bet while driving. Betting became his reason to wake up in the morning. He would place a wager before he fell asleep and wake up eagerly to check the result. Regardless of the outcome, he would place another bet, his action the only thing that could motivate him to get out of bed and start the day.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Days
“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
“He was afraid of letting anyone know of his love, because if life had taught him anything, it was that love wasn’t a prize, it was a weapon. And he was so tired of being hurt.”
Source: The Fire Between High & Lo
“He was afraid of the conversation he was about to have, yet he badly wanted to have it. It was like this each time. His hands trembled ever so slightly as he reached into the drawer.
He removed a plain-looking pinewood box. Placing it on the desk in front of him, he opened its hinged top. Inside was a metallic cone inserted into a wooden base, set next to an electromagnet and two dry cells.
He switched it on. Then came the low-pitched hum, and the faint blue aura.”
Source: The Spirit Phone
“He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.”
“He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour
“He was again struck by her good looks...only it occurred to him now that she might actually be beau tiful. It had never really occurred to him until that moment that there might be beautiful girls outside of the movies, or that he himself might know one. Perhaps it was the bruise that allowed him to see the possibility of her beauty- an essential contrast, a particular flaw which first drew attention to itself and then somehow defined the rest.”
Source: It
“He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.”
“He was all heat and hunger.”
Source: Wolf's Mate
“He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.”
Source: The Letter: My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life
“He was allowed a room here with Kane because of a special international military passport that declared the dog to be a working animal. Kane even had his own rank — major, one station higher than Tucker. All military war dogs were ranked higher than their handlers. It allowed any abuse of the dogs to be a court martial offense: for striking a superior officer.”
Source: Tracker
“He was almost afraid to be alone with himself and yet he was ashamed to be with others.”
“He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)”
Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.”
“He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.”
“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“He was alone yet he was happy, and that was his life's absurdity”
Source: The Poetic Refuge: An Anthology
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“He was already a legend but still doing all this for us...That positivity was so overwhelming. And since he has so much more seniority in the music industry, we learned a lot from him. Things like, what attitude to have as artists when approaching fans. He's a great singer, of course, but it was also the way he was onstage and how he felt toward the members of his band that was so awesome.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.”
Source: Dark Ride
“He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.”
Source: Americanah
“He was also aware that while the public was dividing and conquering itself by focusing on banal, media-driven conflicts such as Neoconservatives versus Liberals, democracy versus terrorism and the West versus the rest, destructive covert outfits were slowly but surely growing stronger. The special agent also understood how groups like Nexus fostered and benefited from the climate of fear perpetuated in television broadcasts and newspaper headlines. As long as Americans were consumed by fear of evildoers, whether these be communists, terrorists, religious extremists or any other potential enemy, he knew they would never realize the greatest enemy of all was operating within – within the West, within America, within their own Government.”
Source: The Orphan Factory
“He was also handsome in a too-pretty way that made me think with less muscles, a wig, and some makeup, he'd look great in a dress. Vlad's scowl vanished into a smile as the brunet's gaze swung in my direction as though he'd somehow heard that. "Looks as though she's put you in your place as well, Bones," Vlad drawled.”
“He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“He was always a crybaby--not in the sense of a whiner, but one of those kids who's always in tears.”
Source: The Vulnerables