H Quotes
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“He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“He will see the doctrine of arbitration, welcomed as a newly-discovered panacea by our amiable enthusiasts, more firmly established in theory than it is yet likely to be in modern Europe, and as impotent to avert the evils of war from the communities who provided for it in every treaty, and invoked it whenever it seemed their interest to do so.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“He will soon be caught, but until then, of course, he is a danger to anyone who encounters him and should be avoided. Just as one should beware of a dog that is foaming at the mouth. However, we know that a rabid dog is actually dying, despite its malice.”
Source: The Thirst
“He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.”
“He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.”
“He will talk about what "some other people said," and what he and "some other people did," and when he never specifically mentions women it will be like the Soviet news agency which never publicizes anything containing the names of the towns where the new bombs are.”
“He will tell the galoi my story. My life away from them. And they will know what I have learned of sock shopping and noodle eating and cat keeping. And they will wonder at the differences in our universe. And because of you, they will see that there can be human somates, and human love and purple penises, and they will maybe talk a little more to humans. They will maybe open up their ships to visitors. And they will maybe consult your doctors for the secrets of human fertility. And they will maybe change. Because that is what zyga is for, in the end. Possibility.”
Source: The 5th Gender
“He will tell you what's wrong in your society, who's to blame, and make you afraid of it, but he won't tell you how to fix it.”
Source: The Last Sunset
“He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.”
“He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.”
Source: Forbidden
“He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.”
“He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.”
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
“He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
Source: The Art of War
“He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.”
Source: The Art of War
“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”
Source: The Art of War - a Samurai Master Class
“He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.”
Source: SUN TZU on the ART OF WAR
“He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“He willed his body to remain unaffected. Sabin would fuss if Strider sported a hard-on around his precious. And, of course, "fuss" meant Strider would find his intestines wrapped around his neck, breathing a thing of the past.”
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!”
Source: The Showings of Divine Love
“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it.”
Source: Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics
“He [William S Burroughs] has no patience for my kind of neurosis, I know... But since then I've been facing my nature full in the face and the result is a purge.”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“He willingly entered the cage, but now he regarded the lock like a thief contemplating all the ways he could break it.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, with his long absence, his infrequent superficial letters? And if she did say it - would he defend himself? Would he give reasons, try to explain how meaningless every endeavour seemed to him? No. For then she would start crying again, he would tell her to stop being silly, she would ask for details, and he would tell her to mind her own business.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth”
“He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.”
“He wiped at his mouth with one hand. "Just sealing the deal, sweetheart.”
Source: Flesh & Fangs
“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.”
Source: Working For The Devil: The Dante Valentine Novels: Book One
“He wipes away the tear streaming down my cotton cheekbone to my chin and looks at me like his own chest is about to fracture. And for a moment, I'm certain they should just bury us both here, at the center of the graveyard. Married and died on the same day. Unable to contain the unspeakable, awful, wondrous emotion breaking against our eyelids.
The dreadful residents of Halloween Town applaud, tossing tiny dwarf spiders at our feet as we leave the cemetery, and the warmth in my chest feels like bats clamoring for a way out of my rib cage. Trying to break me apart.
I am now Sally Skellington.
The Pumpkin Queen.
And I'm certain I will never again be as happy as I am right now.”
Source: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”
Source: Hold Still
“He wished for her life to be filled with more opportunities than he had ever had. (Story: Behind the Grand Doors of Paradise)”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
“He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever change (Heng 432).”
Source: The Great Reclamation
“He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson”
Source: The world according to Garp
“He wished he could cry. Let it all out.”
Source: Love Language
“He wished he could find a way back to believing, even though he knew better, that she was his to protect.”
Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He wished he could find a way to sneak into the room with the girls. He just wanted to watch them, as they slept. Watching them would be enough for him. Afterwards, he could go to the bathroom and finish himself off, just to release some tension.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He wished he could go back. But unfortunately, he knew it to be an impossibility—that time could only travel forward and the simplicity of his childhood would remain lost to the past.”
Source: As Ithaca Lay Forgotten
“He wished he could peel off the war like a scab. All he wanted now was to be was a chap with a lovely girl at his side. Even if his uniform was all he had to wear.”
Source: Lovely War
“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”
“He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge -”
Source: Station Eleven
“He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“He wished he didn’t know what he had lost. Maybe then every day wouldn’t feel like this. As if he had once known how to fly, but the skies had shaken him loose and left him with nothing but the memory of wings.”
Source: The Gilded Wolves
“He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.”
“He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel