H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Holding you, I held everything.”
“Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.”
Source: The Bands of Mourning
“Holding your ground is easy when the world agrees. True courage is when it doesn't.”
“Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they’re being paid to do is not being mean; it’s being a manager, and that’s your job.”
Source: Something Needs to Change Around Here
“Holding yourself accountable empowers you. It reminds you that you have agency and choice over the decisions you make.”
“Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.”
“holes are interesting. there are books about holes.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.”
“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”
“HOLI IS THE TIME TO SPREAD THE COLORS OF LOVE AND TO SHARE THE SWEETS OF JOY, HAPPY HOLI”
“Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.”
“Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.”
“Holiday Greetings shared through eCards are good. Make a list and check it twice.”
“Holiday leaned her elbows on her desk. "You can't find one thing that points to his guilt."
"He slept with your sister!" Burnett roared.
"Guilty of murder, not of being a piece of shit.”
Source: Whispers at Moonrise
“Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.”
“Holiday's eyes pooled with tears. And that pretty much made it a cry fest. Even Della joined in the tear party. Right then, Burnett walked in the office. His gaze went from one female to the other. Kylie could almost hear him groaning inwardly. "I...I'll be...right out there." Obviously even a hard-bodied vampire trained by the FRU wasn't capable of dealing with four crying women.”
Source: Awake at Dawn
“Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.”
“Holidays - Have no pity.”
Source: Selected poems
“Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.”
“Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.”
“Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.”
“Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.”
Source: Dad Is Fat
“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”
Source: A Jest of God
“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”
“Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we’re a part of society. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow”
“Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.”
“Holidays bring out neediness like nothing else.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.”
“Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.”
“Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.”
“Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.”
Source: A letter to a sister
“Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made”
“Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God”
“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
Source: The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index
“Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.”
“Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.”
“Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.”
“Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.”
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”
Source: In my own words
“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”
Source: Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter
“Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.”
“Holiness doesn’t demand denial of happiness, only selfishness. Where unhappiness exists in a relationship, I would submit that such isn’t the price of holiness but a sign of sin. It is an indication that one or both partners is holding to the wrong value system, that of self-love.
When husbands and wives love each other with agape, they meet the deepest needs God designed to be met in the very manner He intended. The result is a joy that is complete and a relationship where happiness is the fruit of holiness and meaning is the consequence of a loving relationship.”
“Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.”
“Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high”
“Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“Holiness gives you the boldness to confront the enemy.”
“Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.”