H Quotes
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“Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.
Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. “No one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.”
“Sure they do. I’ve heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.”
“Tasty darkness. Really.”
Source: Persephone's Orchard
“Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
“Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.”
“Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.”
“Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
- Hermione embodies strength through her intelligence, moral fortitude, and unwavering loyalty to her friends, facing dangers with bravery and a firm belief in doing what is right.”
“Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to break down the door.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Hermione," Harry said seriously, as he started to dig down into the red-velvet pouch again, "don't punish yourself when a bright idea doesn't work out. You've got to go through a lot of flawed ideas to find one that might work. And if you send your brain negative feedback by frowning when you think of a flawed idea, instead of realizing that idea-suggesting is good behavior by your brain to be encouraged, pretty soon you won't think of any ideas at all." Harry put down two heart-shaped chocolates beside the book. "Here, have another chocolate. Besides the one from earlier, I mean. This one is to reinforce your brain for generating a good candidate strategy.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“HERMIONE: I’m sorry, Severus.
SNAPE looks at her, and then swallows the pain. He indicates RON with a flick of his head.
SNAPE: Well, at least I’m not married to him.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said.
“My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!”
“Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!”
“There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I’d better kick the bucket then!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.”
“Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach.
'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!'
“You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!”
She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Hermione painted for hours and hours, and she so enthralled in her artwork, so transfixed as she covered the once cream wall in vibrant shades of blue and jade, that she never felt a pair of curious grey eyes watching her from the doorway”
Source: Secrets and Masks
“Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life.”
“Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!”
“Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.”
“Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.”
“Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.”
“HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Hermits have no peer pressure.”
“Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.”
“Hero had the sense that Pol's Ilocano was stuck in time, that he only wanted to speak it with the people he'd always spoken it to, but even when Hero and Pol spoke in Ilocano with each other in California, there was a playacting stiffness in their voices that hadn't been there back in Vigan, when Hero used to hang on every word.”
Source: America Is Not the Heart
“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.”
Source: Chasing Odysseus
“Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.”
“Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!”
Source: Monkey: Journey to the West
“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.”
“Hero love?” I was puzzled. “You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be.”
Source: Seven Dogs in Heaven
“Hero might have enjoyed the evening spent at Almack's Assembly Rooms, but it had not been one of unmixed pleasure for her escort, while for one other person it had been an evening of almost unleavened annoyance. Miss Milborne, seeing the most ardent of her admirers enter the rooms with Hero on his arm, had suffered something in the nature of a shock. Never before had she seen George in attendance on any other lady than herself! When he came to Almack's it was to form one of her court; and when she did not dance with him he had a gratifying habit of leaning against the wall and watching her, instead of soliciting some other damsel to dance with him. Now, on the heels of the most obdurate quarrel they had had, here he was, looking perfectly cheerful, actually laughing at something Hero had said to him, his handsome head bent a little to catch her words. Hero, too, was in very good looks: in fact, Miss Milborne had not known that her little friend could appear to such advantage. She could never, of course, aspire to such beauty as belonged to the Incomparable, but Miss Milborne was no fool, and she was obliged to own that there was something particularly taking in the bride's smile and mischievous twinkle. Watching George, she came to the reluctant conclusion that he was fully sensible of his partner's charm. He had given his adored Isabella nothing more than a common bow upon catching sight of her, and it was plain that he meant to devote his evening to Hero. Miss Milborne could think of a dozen reasons to account for his gallanting Hero to the ball, but none of them satisfied her; nor could the distinguishing attention paid to her by her ducal admirer quite restore her spirits.”
Source: Friday's Child
“Hero opened her mouth, still unsure of whether to use English or Tagalog when talking to Paz. Paz had a habit of speaking to Roni in a mixture of English, Tagalog, and Pangasinan. It felt like Roni didn't really know the difference between Tagalog and Pangasinan, and moved between the two interchangeably as if they were one language. Nobody had told her otherwise, Hero supposed. But for Hero, listening to the mixture was like listening to a radio whose transmission would occasionally short out; she'd get half a sentence, then nothing -- eventually the intelligible parts would start back up, but she'd already lost her place in the conversation. But when Pol would come in, they'd switch to English, and like adjusting a dial to get a sharper signal, Hero would be able to tune in again.”
Source: America Is Not the Heart
“Hero or villain – it makes no difference to me. Sometimes, they mean the same damn thing. I’ll love you whichever you are.”
Source: Fathoms Deep: A Blood Shadow Novel
“Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.”
Source: Chasing Odysseus
“Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.”
“Hero. The word slithered nastily in his mind. An honour bestowed upon you when you had killed all those who would have called you a mass murderer.”
Source: Sons of Darkness
“Hero was touched by the small gesture of courtesy, at first only minutely, and then, for no reason at all, deeply and wholly. It was possible she was about to cry, here in this kitchen, for the first time since she'd arrived in America. To prevent that from happening, she stuffed her mouth with an entire quarter of the pizza, then huffed and gasped as the molten bite burned her tongue.”
Source: America Is Not the Heart
“Hero, who had not failed to notice Miss Milborne's roses, and George's haggard appearance, took the earliest opportunity that offered of following him to his retreat. Her tender heart ached for the pain she knew him to be suffering. It was a pain she was not quite a stranger to, and her own susceptibility made it seem the more imperative to offer such comfort as she could to George.
She found him sitting moodily on a small sofa, a glass of brandy in his hand. He looked up, with a challenging expression in his eyes, but when he saw who had come in his brow cleared, and he rose, setting down his glass, and managing to conjure of the travesty of a smile.
Hero clasped his hand between both hers, saying: 'Dear George, do not heed it! Indeed, she could not have carried violets with that gown!'
'She is wearing Severn's roses,' he replied.
'Oh no! You cannot know that!'
'Mrs. Milborne told Lady Cowper so within my hearing.”
Source: Friday's Child
“Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Hero Worship (The Sonnet)
We used to worship the sun and the moon,
We used to worship stones and trees.
Then reason grew stronger along with imagination,
So our worship shifted from elements to entities.
Some of them were real and some fully fictitious,
We just needed an excuse to externalize our divinity.
Even today we keep inventing fictitious characters,
Despite knowing they are fiction we pledge our loyalty.
It seems like we are always holding out for a hero,
Outside our very own everyday, ordinary psyche.
Fiction is healthy so long as we grow no dependency,
Real heroes are just humans standing unbent on duty.
Enough with worship of fiction from comics and scriptures!
It's time to be the hero and take the world on our shoulders.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.”
Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus
“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“Herod was convert,after all. His mother was Arab. His people, the Idumeans, had come to Judaism only a generation or two earlier.”
Source: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
“Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.”
“Herodotus knew to tell a story, you had to respect it first.”
Source: Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.”
“HEROES AIN'T NOTHING BUT A VILLAIN WHO FOUND THEIR PURPOSE”
“Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.”
“Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.”
“Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.”
“Heroes and heroines don't question their dreams, they see their dreams as a calling for their true path. They just accept them and try to fulfill them. Mainly because they know that it's in this fulfillment that they can find success and a reason for their existence.”
Source: Cinderella on the Couch