H Quotes
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“Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wide variety of foods to growing what the Egyptian state demanded. Their bones show lots of deficiencies in minerals and iron." The same stunting happened repeatedly throughout history. As late as the 1800s, male Cheyenne Indians, who hunted bison and collected berries, averaged a whopping 5'10", towering above even today's Americans, not to mention General Custer's cavalry, which averaged 5'7", and the period's wealthy European monarchies.”
Source: The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
“Heil Hitler, God save the king, Vande Mataram, Patria o Muerte - it's all the same - a declaration of tribal glory, with no concern for the rest of humanity. Such archaic attitude suits a bronze-age society, not a civilized one. It's time for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (world is family), not Vande Mataram (hail the motherland) - it's time for Mundo y Vida (world and life), not Patria o Muerte (homeland or death) - it's time for Humans save Humanity, not God save the king.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Heil meiner Verbannung aus dem Garten Eden! Wäre ich nicht gefallen, so hätte ich keine Gelegenheit gehabt, die Lebenstiefen zu ergründen.”
Source: Gayan - Vadan - Nirtan: die Essenz der Sufi-Botschaft von Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Heim-Weh ist ein schönes Wort.”
Source: Sommerkind
“Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.”
Source: The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels
“Heimkommen. Für viele ein tröstlicher Gedanke, für mich hingegen der absolute Horror. Zu Hause erwartete mich nichts als Stille. Trostlose Stille.”
Source: Becoming who we are: Ich bin nicht, wer du denkst!
“Heimthra' was the word used for longing: for home, for the past, for things to be as they once had been. Even the gods were said to know that yearning, from when the worlds were broken.”
Source: The Last Light of the Sun
“Heimweh, wonach?
Wenn ich "Heimweh" sage, sag ich "Traum"
Denn die alte Heimat gibt es kaum.
Wenn ich Heimweh sage, mein ich viel:
Was uns lange drückte im Exil.
Fremde sind wir nun im Heimatort.
Nur das "Weh", es bleibt.
Das "Heim" ist fort.”
Source: In meinen Träumen läutet es Sturm: Gedichte und Epigramme aus dem Nachlass
“Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people’s democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).”
Source: The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
“Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold”
“Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!”
Source: His Forefathers and Mick
“heir eyes met. They both smiled, aware that they were in public, where anyone could see them on the street and in the window. But the rest of the world did not matter. For that moment, everything else vanished. He was there, she was there, no trouble could touch them.”
Source: My Dearest Miss Fairfax
“Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.”
“Heir to Elfhame,” I say. “Get on your knees.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Heir to no throne,
no crown on my head,
tearing up borderly lies,
I burn as the lamp of aid.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]”
Source: Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
“Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden.
(Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)”
Source: The Art of Always Being Right
“Heiress, before we start spilling secrets, I'm going to need you to promise me a plane.'
'A plane?' I gave him an incredulous look.
'You have several.' Jameson smiled. 'I want to borrow one.'
'Why do you need a plane?' Grayson asked suspiciously.
Jameson waved away the question.
'Fine,' I told him. 'You can take one of my planes.' Yet another sentence I never thought I'd say.”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“Heiresses are never jilted.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Meredith (Illustrated)
“Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years”
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet... a vole. It's a remarkable thing in its way, a vole—intricate, beautiful really, marvellous. But does it... Does it help? Does it move the matter on?
When you ask a question that you'd actually like to know the answer to—what was there before the Big Bang, for instance, or what lies beyond the expanding universe, why does life have this inbuilt absurdity, this non sequitur of death—they say that your question can't be answered, because the terms in which you've put it are logically unsound. What you must do, you see, is ask vole questions. Vole is—as we have agreed—the answer; so it follows that your questions must therefore all be vole-related.”
Source: Engleby
“Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!”
“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that to determine the precise location of a particle will only speed up the particle. The same goes for a husband: to ask him exactly where he has been all night will only make him squirm and wiggle and dodge the question more. He will only disappear again.”
Source: Chemistry
“Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - particles can be located precisely. Waves, on the other hand, have no precise location, but they do have momentum. The more you know about the wave aspect of reality, the less you know about the particle, and vice versa. Experiments designed to detect particles always detect particles; experiments designed to detect waves always detect waves. No experiment shows the electron behaving like a wave and a particle at the same time.”
Source: In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
“Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.”
“HEJ HEJ! CAFÉ MENU
RULLEKEBAB
Original (Rullekebab)----shaved seasoned beef, fresh flatbread, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, kebab sauce
Blue Kebab (Rullekebab med blåmögelost)----Original Rullekebab with blue cheese
Shroom Kebab (Rullekebab med champinjoner)----Original Rullekebab with mushrooms
Hej Hej! Special Rullekebab----Original Rullekebab with pineapple, blue cheese, jalapeños
HAMBURGARE
Hand-patted, local grass-fed beef, homemade buns
The Classic----beef, choice of cheese, bun
The Gettysburg----caramelized shallots, mushrooms, blue cheese, bacon, balsamic glaze
The Farfar----two patties, four slices of American cheese, four pieces of bacon
The Gruff Burger----goat cheese, fries (on top!), caramelized shallots, poutine gravy to dip
The Valedictorian----pepper-jack cheese, bacon, guacamole (from Rosa's)
POMMES FRITES
Fresh-cut fries
Plain----with cheese or gravy to dip
Loaded Kebab Fries----fresh-cut fries, chopped kebab meat, red and white kebab sauces, crumbled feta, diced jalapeños and tomatoes
Goat Cheese Poutine----fresh-cut fries, house-made gravy, goat cheese crumbles
MUNKAR
Äpple Munk----fresh donut, cinnamon sugar, filled w/ apple and sweet cream
Bär Munk----fresh donut, sugar, seasonal berry jam, sweet cream
Munkhål----baby donuts (holes), cinnamon sugar
Special Munk----daily and seasonal specials
CUPCAKES
Vanilla Wedding Cake, Devil's Food, Lemon, Strawberry Cheesecake, Weekly Specials
SEASONAL TREATS
Homemade Apple Crisp à la Mode
Apple Fritters
Pumpamunk
Saffron Buns”
Source: Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love
“Hekate has been given numerous epithets describing her roles and qualities over the thousands of years of her worship. Some of her well known titles include:
Chthonia (‘earthly one’),
Dadouchos (‘torch-bearer’),
Enodia (‘of the ways’),
Kleidouchos (‘key-bearer’),
Kourotrophos (‘child’s nurse’),
Phosphorus (‘light-bearer’),
Propolos (‘companion’),
Propylaia (‘before the gates’),
Soteira (‘saviour’),
Triformis (‘three bodied’),
Trioditis (‘of the three ways’).”
Source: Hekate Liminal Rites: A Study of the rituals, magic and symbols of the torch-bearing Triple Goddess of the Crossroads
“Hekima ni fikra inayotoka moyoni, busara ni hekima inayozungumzwa.”
“Hektor was the wall around her world that kept life's perils at bay.”
Source: Rise of Princes
“Hela idén med språket är ju att kommunicera, och att tala om "fel" är därmed främst intressant när kommunikationen inte fungerar som den ska och budskapet inte når fram.”
Source: Världens dåligaste språk: Tankar om språket och människan idag
“Hela villan, från den vitkalkade terassen till radioantennen, var sådan - prydlig, putsad och på det hela taget oälskad och meningslös. Husets herre betraktade den som ett skämt. Vad beträffar Martha var det varken estetiska hänsyn eller känsloskäl som styrde hennes smak, hon ansåg bara helt enkelt att en tämligen rik tysk affärsman i nittonhundratjugotalets Berlin borde ha ett hem av precis detta slag, det vill säga det skulle vara av precis samma villaförstadstyp som de hus andra personer i hans ställning hade.”
Source: King, Queen, Knave
“Hela världen är en kyrka, de hjälplösa är våra gudar.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Hela världen är en kyrka,
De hjälplösa är våra gudar.
Framför allt är människor verkliga;
Det finns inget paradis utom folket.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Held in his piercing powder-blue vision, I froze. A butterfly awakened in my chest.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to his reality. In other words, he is now a “grown-up.” Yet was the chest really empty? Wasn’t there something vital, something invisible to the eye, that got away at the very moment it was opened?”
Source: Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.”
Source: How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!
“Held:
Love is the only thing to ever hold onto.
Even when it was never returned to you
Even if it was used as a tool to hurt you
Because not everyone knows how to love
Or to treat people tenderly
That's why the ones that speak with love and live through love
Will always have an extra special task to fulfil on this earth
And that is...
To keep holding onto love”
Source: The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry
“Held too tightly, emotions rebel; guided gently, they obey.
(Let Go — Cool — Return)”
Source: Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
“Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself." "My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said. Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.”
“Helden sind Dummköpfe, hatte ich entgegnet. Er hatte gelacht. Da sind wir uns einig.”
Source: Circe
“Hele stukken van Congo werden nooit bezet bij gebrek aan personeel: in 1908 waren er maar een paar honderd blanken op ca. 100 posten voor een gebied zo groot als West-Europa (76 x België) met 10 à 15 miljoen inwoners. De oorspronkelijke koningen en chefs bestuurden hun gebied in naam van Leopold II en daarna van België. Ze kozen de kant van de kolonisator in ruil voor westerse goederen en een afzetmarkt voor hun ivoor”
Source: Koloniaal Congo - Een geschiedenis in vragen
“Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees, unmoved,
God’s daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1912-1944
“Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes. I suspected she might be right and I wrong; but I would not ponder the matter deeply; like Felix, I put it off to a more convenient season.”
Source: Jane Eyre: an Autobiography; v.3 c.1
“Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.”
“Helen dared to look up without being invited to do so. “I cannot
thank you enough for your kindness, Lady Consort.”
“Kindness had nothing to do with it. You have skills and training I
need just now, and I intend to use you shamelessly, and expose you to
greater danger.”
“Get in line, Lady Consort,” Helen replied. “Danger-filled usury
seems to be a holiday pastime in this city.”
The Consort stopped pretending to do her needlework. “I could
have you whipped for such insolence, girl.”
“Before or after you use me.”
Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.”
Source: Howards End
“Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick.”
“Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.”
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...