H Quotes
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“Herd mentality is evident in both the orthodox and liberal camps, as every ludicrous proposition finds supporters, like a puff of air sweeping across a land of wind chimes.”
Source: Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
“Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.”
Source: Education and the Social Order
“Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss”
“Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.”
“Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.”
“Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.”
“Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'”
“Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.”
“Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.”
“Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.”
“Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole
from "White City”
“Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.”
Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal - it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.”
“Here Adrian Rand Robison has discussed about Successful entrepreneurs, that is to say those who are able to accomplish their goals, earn a successful living through their business and enjoy the many benefits of entrepreneurship, all have specific traits.”
“Here Adrian Rand Robison has discussed about the tips to being a entrepreneur and its benefit to building a business is that you are in charge of deciding when you want to work.”
“Here.
After so long waiting.
Her purple eyes.
Torn cloak.
Skin pale, sheer as ice.
Exhausted.
But unafraid.”
Source: East
“Here again, it occurred to me, was the unique problem that faces my generation, the generation of those who had been, say, seven or eight years old during the mid-1960s, the generation of the grandchildren of those who'd been adults when it all happened; a problem that will face no other generation in history. We are just close enough to those who were there that we feel an obligation to the facts as we know them; but we are also just far enough away, at this point, to worry about our own role in the transmission of those facts, now that the people to whom those facts happened have mostly slipped away.”
“Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.”
“Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.”
Source: Luther's Works: Career of the reformer
“Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.”
“Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point.
The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.”
Source: 777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae
“Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.”
Source: Trainspotting
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!
Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of the spirit? Does this city not reek of the fumes of slaughtered spirit?
Do you not see the souls hanging like dirty, limp rags? – And they also make newspapers from these rags!
Have you not heard how the spirit has here become a play with words? It vomits our repulsive verbal swill! – And they also make newspapers from this verbal swill.
They pursue one another and do not know where. They inflame one another, and do not know why. They rattle their tins, they jingle their gold.
They are cold and seek warmth in distilled waters; they are inflamed and seek coolness in frozen spirits; they are all ill and diseased with public opinion.
All lusts and vices are at home here; but there are virtuous people here, too, there are many adroit, useful virtues.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm.”
Source: Whose Body?
“Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.”
“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”
“Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom”
“Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.”
“Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!”
“Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.”
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”
Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
“here among them the americans this baffling
multi people extremes and variegations their
noise restlessness their almost frightening
energy how best describe these aliens in my
reports to The Counselors
disguise myself in order to study them unobserved
adapting their varied pigmentations white black
red brown yellow the imprecise and strangering
distinctions by which they live by which they
justify their cruelties to one another
charming savages enlightened primitives brash
new comers lately sprung up in our galaxy how
describe them do they indeed know what or who
they are do not seem to yet no other beings
in the universe make more extravagant claims
for their importance and identity”
Source: Collected Poems
“Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.”
“Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.”
“Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.”
Source: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
“Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking there, pussypussy plunderpussy.”
Source: Finnegans Wake
“Here and now are the only place and time when one ever enjoys himself or accomplishes anything. Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.”
“Here and now I love you, for the moment you have my heart. But you are entitled to my future, you have no ownership of my past.”
Source: Sea of Strangers
“Here and now she cannot exist without me.”
Source: The Longest Ride
“Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.”
“Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life”
“Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.”
“Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces."
Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)”
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.”
Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.”
Source: Now And Then
“Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.”
“here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.”
Source: Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience