H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History, sir, will tell lies as usual.”
“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.”
“History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.”
“History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.”
Source: War and Peace Vol. 3 & 4
“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”
“History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.”
Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event
“History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.”
Source: Silas Marner, The lifted veil, and Brother Jacob. Scenes of clerical life
“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.”
“History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.”
“History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.”
“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.”
Source: The Children of Men
“History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.”
“History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.”
“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”
“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”
“History-writing is not a visit of condolence.”
“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
Source: The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing
“History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.”
“History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.”
“History: a collection of epitaphs.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“History: A distillation of rumor.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes
“History: gossip well told.”
“History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.”
“Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances.”
“Histórias são criaturas selvagens', continuou o monstro. 'Quando você as liberta, como saber a devastação que elas podem causar?”
Source: A Monster Calls
“Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.”
“Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege."
Miss Love really laughed. "There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!”
Source: Cold Sassy Tree
“Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don’t know what-all. I cain’t see much difference to nary one of ‘em. There’s a good to all of ‘em and there’s a bad.”
Source: South Moon Under
“Hit hard, hit fast and hit often”
“Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!”
Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.”
“Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.”
“Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.”
“Hit me again, and I'll report you to the authorities. Follow me to my bed one more time, and I swear to the gods, I'll search for the most painful way to murder you.”
Source: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
“Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.”
“Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.”
“Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“Hit the 'delete' button when you have unrighteous thoughts.”
“Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you.”
“Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.”
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”
“Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in.
Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans.”
“Hit the delete button every time fear appears.”