H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.”
“His ears, Thunderbolt plugged, to every frequency from the voice airing out of the radio.”
Source: Tajrish
“His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.”
“His ego and complex always overpowered his emotions.”
Source: Fourteen Urban Folklore
“His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.”
Source: franny and zooey
“His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.”
Source: The Major Works
“His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want to touch these people's hands or see things from their point of view, I just wanted to continue hating them. So I kept my mouth shut and stared off into space.”
“His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.”
“His Eminence, U.S. President-for-Life, is degrading. His cognitive decline is accelerating. It's memory fragmentation. His hard drive is corrupted. Too much input. Too much adulation. He cannot distinguish between history, movies, and his own lies.”
Source: Autocrat
“His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.”
Source: Runaway Horses
“His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.”
“His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.”
“His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.”
Source: Robert Kennedy: a memoir
“His energy is very malevolent. Don't get sick or I'll start asking you if the baby is all right in front of him.”
Source: Mind Game
“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”
Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
“His enthusiasm had been infectious, and it had almost become her dream too.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“His entire existence had been accumulating towards this moment; as if all his sorrow, all the pain and manifold disasters were necessary in order for the ecstasy of this one blissful moment to exist.”
Source: The Angel and the Apothecary
“His entire life, he hadn't cared if he'd upset someone or made them angry. No one had mattered. He'd found a place inside himself where he was safe, where no one could get to him. But she could--she had.”
Source: Toxic Game
“His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.”
Source: Death Before Daylight
“His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, it eased.”
Source: The Kingdoms
“His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.”
“His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.”
“His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.”
“His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s party. At Banks’s party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets.”
Source: Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
“His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness”
“His every movement is languorous. It feels dangerous to rest my gaze on him for too long, as though he is so thoroughly debauched that it might be contagious.”
Source: The Wicked King
“His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”
“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature."
"The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."”
“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”
“His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.”
“His expertise took in anything manufactured in the old gross way from inorganic materials. He was totally lost with modern bacterial electronics, where computers were grown, not made. His work was greatly valued by a few historians of science, and virtually unknown to everyone else”
Source: Dreamweaver's Dilemma
“His expression combined that of a Middle-western farmer appraising his wheat-crop and that of an actor wondering whether he is observed - the public manner of all good Americans.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“His expression was graven, a mask of urgent desire. "Wrap your legs around me."
She could barely make out the gravelly command; it took an instant to register that his palms had slid beneath her bottom, supporting her weight, then to make her muscles obey her enough to obey him.
Immediately her thighs clamped about him, he lowered her hips, and she realized- felt the broad head of his erection nudge against her entrance, then he pressed in, and drew her down.
As he thrust upward.
Head falling back, she gasped as he impaled her, as the sensation of him riding hard and high into her body engulfed her senses, and dragged them down.
Into a whirlpool of seething desire, of passion so hot it scorched, of a need so fiery it melted her bones. He lifted her, and brought her down again, thrusting upward as he did, and every nerve she possessed shook, shuddered.
With a need he understood; legs braced, he held her in his arms before the fireplace, the heat from the flames dancing over her flushed skin as he gripped her bottom and held her to him, held her body against him and filled her again and again.”
Source: The Taste of Innocence
“His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. “Why can’t you see yourself as I see you?” -Jack to Amanda”
“His expression was suddenly serious as the tip of his finger traced her lips. “I never understood why history is filled with stories of men who waged wars over a woman they loved. There are many women in the world, and it was beyond my grasp what made one woman special enough to go to such extremes.” He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Now I understand.”
Source: The Dark Knight
“His expression went cold and dark as he came within inches from her, towering over her small frame. His voice was calm but stern. "Let me be clear before we begin our working relationship. I am not kind nor do I, or will I ever, offer anything out of sheer kindness.”
Source: Sevin
“His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then…”
Source: Outlander
“His eye fell upon the aspidistra. Two years he had inhabited this vile room; two mortal years in which nothing had been accomplished.”
“His eyebrows arch in a look born of condescension. The condescension isn’t important. It matters little what he thinks of me, as long as he can do his job. That sharp, lovely face is nothing more than a reminder of what he is: in the devil’s children, beauty is not to be trusted.”
Source: The Agent's Demon
“His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.”
“His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."
Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.”
Source: Phoenix Broken
“His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate."
"Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that yet—we must fight to the very end.”
Source: Where the Dark Stands Still
“His eyes alone set her insides ablaze.
The blue looked dark as midnight at the moment, a twinkle in his eyes like they held all the stars in his gaze. He had a solar system inside of him, a universe of secrets Serah yearned to explore.”
Source: Reignite
“His eyes always stayed on the water clock. Ketemin's eyes stayed on their uncle. Ever since their father died she treated her uncle as though he was their father. But he wasn't. And he never would be. She would never forgive him if she found out. But he could always make sure she didn't.”
Source: Of Captivity & Kings
“His eyes and her eyes were just looking straight into my Eyes. Oh, God, what a destiny of all destinies.”