H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“Here in Zürich, at Paradeplatz, the heartbeat of global capital hums in these buildings, where the relentless pursuit of profit seems never-ending.”
Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“Here, indeed, we encounter a curious phenomenon: the relevant mental processes, when seen in the mass, are more familiar, more accessible to our consciousness than they can ever be in the individual. In the individual only the aggression of the super-ego makes itself clearly heard, when tension arises, in the form of reproaches, while the demands themselves often remain unconscious in the background. When brought fully into consciousness, they are seen to coincide with the precepts of the current cultural super-ego. At this point there seems to be a regular cohesion, as it were, between the cultural development of the mass and the personal development of the individual. Some manifestations and properties of the super-ego can thus be recognized more easily by its behaviour in the cultural community than by its behaviour in the individual.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Here- instead of the estuaries and enormous sweeps of grass as in her marsh- clear water flowed as far as she could see through a bright and open cypress forest. Brilliant white herons and storks stood among the water lilies and floating plants so green they seemed to glow. Hunched up on cypress knees as large as easy chairs, they ate pimento-cheese sandwiches and potato chips, grinning as geese glided just below their toes.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Here is a beautiful game you can play: Go to a pretty street you have never been to; don’t look for anything and let the things find you! Never forget that those who look for nothing will always look more attractive!”
“Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.”
“Here is a big occult secret: Time flows in both directions at once! In other words, we are not only being carried along into the future on an ocean wave of time, but the future is at this very moment flowing toward us! The point where we meet head-on is the present.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“Here is a body of Christ.' The priest put a wafer into the mouth of the first person on the right of the altar. I lurked through the red curtain, preparing a thick line of amphetamine on the edge of the confessional.
'Amen.' I swallowed the body of God in the ritual of holy communion. Speed disappeared in my right nostril. The pressure struck straight away in my brain, sending me somewhere over the altar and beyond holy figures of the saints. The bell was tolling. Organs played in the background. People were singing a holy song. I could feel my hair rise up to reach heaven at that holy moment. I was high. I was a High Priest!”
Source: Explosives Under Special Supervision
“Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.”
“Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for the land, and Eric Freyfogle has thoughtfully assembled a banquet of eloquent voices.”
“Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly, he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier who was waiting, with a heavy heart, to suffer and die in battle. But suddenly the luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everyone bursts out singing! He will go home after all! The sparrows in the plowland were crouching in terror of the kestrel. But she has gone; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.”
Source: Watership Down
“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.”
“Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.”
“Here is a COVID-19 Commandment:
Great love has no one than this, to lay on one's couch without friends.”
“Here is a COVID-19 Commandment:
Greater love has no one than this, to lay on one's couch without friends.”
“Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.”
“Here is a detailed report from the Walter Reed pathology lab. Their examination was most helpful in giving us a lead for identification."
The President looked at him in surprise. "You identified them?"
"It was the analysis of the borscht paste that opened the door."
"Borscht what?"
"You recall that the Dade County coroner fixed death by hypothermia, or freezing?"
"Yes."
"Well, borscht paste is a godawful food supplement given to Russian cosmonauts. The stomachs of the three corpses were loaded with the stuff."
"You're telling me that Raymond LeBaron and his crew were exchanged for three dead Soviet cosmonauts?"
Emmett nodded. "We were even able to put a name on them through a defector, a former flight surgeon with the Russian space program. He'd examined each of them on several occasions."
"When did he defect?"
"He came over to our side in August of '87."
"A little over two years ago."
"That's correct," Emmett acknowledged. "The names of the cosmonauts found in LeBaron's blimp are Sergei Zochenko, Aleksandr Yudenich, and Ivan Ronsky. Yudenich was a rookie, but Zochenko and Ronsky were both veterans with two space flights apiece.”
Source: Cyclops
“Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!”
“Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.”
“Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.”
“Here is a fantasy land purchased at the price of loneliness and relinquished youth.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.”
“Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.”
“Here is a fine field for talent.”
“Here is a girl who finally shares who she is and then is immediately punished by the world. But Jon Allan Blue is not the world. He's one man. And Abby was more than just the way her life ended.”
Source: Don't Forget the Girl
“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”
Source: She’s Come Undone
“Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!”
“Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.”
“Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!”
“Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!”
“Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!”
“Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!”
“Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!”
“Here is a great day, here is a perfect choice! A camp in nature! What else do you need? You don't have to dream because you are in a dream now!”
“here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.”
“Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
“Here is a guaranteed way to get more of what you want: want less.”
“Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].”
“Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.”
Source: The Grass Harp
“Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.”
“Here is a historical fact that somehow gets overlooked, and might seem controversial, but it just simply is true: The Beastie Boys should only be listened to by deaf people. Any other time it plays over speakers, it should be considered torture and an act of war. Even ducks, the songbirds of the feathered swimmers, hate The Beastie Boys, and consider them to be The Three Stooges of the musical world, with all of the vocal talent of Gilbert Gottfried.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.”
“Here is a key to unlock a memory or two.”
“Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.”
Source: Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters
“Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.”
“Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it”
Source: The island race
“Here is a lesson in creative writing.
First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.
For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
“Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.”
Source: A Short Guide to Writing About History