H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.”
“Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.”
“Hearing loss is a known effect of high altitude barotrauma.”
“Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.”
“Hearing loss may silence the world around us, but it can never quiet the love that speaks to our heart.”
“Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.”
“Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.”
“Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.”
“Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.”
Source: Glass Girl
“Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.”
“Hearing my mother's crestfallen and utterly disappointed voice confirmed what I had suspected all along -- that neither she nor my dad actually cared about me. There were no words of reassurance...and certainly no "I love you." All she cared about was that I had failed.”
Source: We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.”
“Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.”
“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
“Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.”
“Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.”
“Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.”
“Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the band. Man that was incredible. Hearing Tom at that period, and hearing Phil in that period, and also [Charles] McPherson. Those three guys were very impactful. Very inspiring to me at the time.”
“Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.”
“Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling].”
“Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.”
“Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.”
“Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.”
“Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.”
“Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.”
“Hearing the blues changed my life.”
“Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.”
“Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.”
“HEARING THE NARCISSIST IN YOUR HEAD The voices, the words, and the
devaluing messages will haunt you. At first you may hear the good promises or
things they said that were seemingly loving. You cling, wishing they were true
again. These messages are holding you to them. Other times the internal
messages become haunting words. 'You are no good', 'you can't do anything right', 'you are not good enough'. These messages internalize as truths until we
heal and accept the truth. They were lying to keep you controlled.”
“Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.”
“Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep,
with the dog at your feet, his head resting
on a shoe, and the clock's ticking
like water dripping in a sink - I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact,
given the inherent cruelty of the world
where beautiful things and people
are blasted apart all the day long,
I would never want to come back, knowing
I could never be this lucky twice.”
“Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.”
“Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.”
“Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much of my young adulthood believing: that it is better to be the one desired more, rather than the one doing more desiring. As if love were a contest; as if desire were fixed, or absolute; as if either position could insulate you from being harmed or causing harm; as if being in control could insulate you from anything.”
Source: What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
“Hearing those words, I instinctively turn to my new keeper, regretting it, because for only the third time in my entire existence, tears are streaming down my cheeks.”
Source: Girl of Myth and Legend
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, you can give the songs a little more space. You can play them a little slower or you can play less of the guitar part and just let it open up, which I really love. It's so nice to play a listening room, because the audience feels a certain way too.”
“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”
“Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.”
Source: The Physyology of Taste
“Hearken to no inherited fear, and walk, la solo ray.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.”
“Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.”
Source: Chasing Impossible
“Heart a kaleidoscope, mind a labyrinthine maze, each soul dances to a rhythm only they hear. Though paths converge, the tapestry they weave remains their own, a masterpiece in solitude's embrace”
“Heart-aching, soul-shaking, breath-taking, ground-breaking - Love Journey”
Source: Coming Home
“Heart alive knows the worth of brain,
Hence, it never undermines reason.
Sometimes reason must take a backseat,
that doesn't make it redundant.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”
“Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.”
“Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.”
“Heart and head are contrary historians.”