H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.”
Source: Aunt Dimity's Good Deed
“Helplessness is a mighty power.”
“Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.”
“Helplessness is not hopelessness.” — Abraham Low”
“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”
“Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.”
“Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.”
Source: Prayer
“Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.”
“Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.”
“Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.”
“Helter skelter in a summer swelter.”
“Helvetica is good for typographers who do not know what to say.”
“Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.”
“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
“Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.”
“Hem bilindiği gibi, tembellik bütün kusurların anasıdır.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“Hem gecenin hem de gündüzün dostu ol, işte o zaman ne gündüzden korkarsın ne de geceden!”
“Hem inventat l'arqueologia i n'hem de sofrir les conseqüències: vull dir, ser-ne tema el dia de demà.”
Source: Consells, proverbis i insolències
“Hem çok eski hem de yepyeni, düzeneği hem mekanik hem de hayal gücüne bağlı, hem sabit geometrik bir alanla sınırlı hem de bileşimleri sınırsız, hem sürekli gelişen hem de kısır, hiçbir şeye götürmeyen bir düşünme, hiçbir şeyi hesaplamayan bir matematik, yapıtları olmayan bir sanat, maddesi olmayan bir mimari, bununla birlikte varlığıyla bütün kitap ve yapıtlardan daha dayanıklı olduğu su götürmez, bütün halklara ve bütün zamanlara ait olan tek oyun; can sıkıntısının öldürmesi, zihni açması, ruhu canlandırması için HANGİ TANRI'NIN ONU YERYÜZÜNE GÖNDERDİĞİNİ KİMSE BİLMEZ.”
Source: Chess Story
“Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life . . . was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, . . . to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner tune. Hema moved gently . . . she danced as if her minimalist gestures were shorthand for a much larger, fuller, reckless dance, one that held the whole world together, kept it from extinction.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”
“Hemantda’s [Hemanta Mukhopadhyay] voice reminds one of a Baul singer. When I hear him—that’s the image that comes to me—a Baul singer sitting by the river and singing. The sound echoes, spreads over the water and fills the sky.”
Source: Jiya Jale: The Stories of Songs
“Hemen dile getirilmemesi gereken şeyleri övünerek anlatıyorsun.”
Source: Larende'nin Düşüşü
“Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız. Sonra, bütün varlığımız acı deneylerden geçtiği, insanların ve olayların içine düştüğümüz zaman her şey, yavaş yavaş ve hiç farkında olmadan küçülür, kala kala geriye bir kül yığınının içindeki bir altın parçacığı kalır. Hayat dediğin budur işte! Gerçek hayat, olduğu gibi hayat!”
Source: Vadideki Zambak
“Hemen yakınındaki çevresi, zihne, okumanın yaptığı gibi, tek bir düşünceyi dayatmaz. Zihne sadece kendi doğasına ve içinde bulunduğu ruh haline uygun düşünceler düşünmesi için fırsat ve konu sunar. Sonuçta çok okumak beynin tüm elastikiyetini çalar, tıpkı bir ağırlığın baskısı altında yayın elastikiyetini kaybetmesi gibi... Dolayısıyla kendine ait herhangi bir düşünceye hiçbir zaman sahip olmamanın en kesin yolu, ne zaman boş zamanınız olsa gidip elinize bir kitap almak olacaktır.”
“Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.”
“Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Hemingway concealed his hurt feelings but privately added Dorothy's name to his catalogue of people he disliked.”
Source: Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
“Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.”
“Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.”
“Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.”
“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.”
“Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”
“Hemingway is overrated,
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,
Where both her whispers and her screams,
Are born.
Pour another glass,
Beer, wine, whiskey,
I don't care,
So long as its wisdom is sharp,
And it tells lies instead of promises.”
Source: The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology
“Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.”
“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”
“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ What Hemingway failed to mention is that bleeding is the easy part. To cut is what makes writing hard. Sitting down to write and hitting that first key or touching the tip of your pen to that blank sheet of paper - that’s the hard part. Once you start - once you spill that first bit of ink and let it bleed into the page, the rest takes care of itself. There’s nothing to it. You just sit there and bleed until it stops. It is not for this reason, but it’s still interesting and worth mentioning that the word ‘write’ comes from the Proto-Germanic word ‘writan,’ which literally meant to scratch, tear, or cut.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“Hemingway once wrote: "The world's a fine place and worth fighting for."
I agree with the second part.”
“Hemingway’s been a reporter long enough to know that when you meet resistance from the people in authority it’s better not to confront them. Withdraw, regroup, and make another plan of attack.”
Source: We Were the Bullfighters
“Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.”
“Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?”
Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
“Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.”
“Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.”
“Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.”
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
Source: The Adding Machine: Collected Essays
“Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.”
“Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.”
“Hemingway writes of people becoming stronger in the broken places, which is a heartening thought, and sometimes true. All too often, though, it belongs in the file that Jim Webb labeled typical Hemingway bullshit.”
Source: The Nightingale's Song
“Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.”