H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.”
“Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.”
“Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.”
Source: The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas
“Hard to call it a party without sardines.”
Source: The Candy Shop War
“Hard to describe what those next years felt like to live through. Except as a hollowing out, a loss beyond repair...even as it kept begging to be repaired. While the promise of what had been so very close haunted me. In so many ways.
"So much in motion, such energy, it disguised the decay of things, the incremental rot. How much was hollowed out."
Impossible to tell how fast society was collapsing because history had been riddled through with disinformation, and reality was composed of half-fictions and full-on paranoid conspiracy theories. You couldn't figure out if collapse was a cliff or a gentle slope because all the mental constructs obscured it. Multinationals kept their monopolies, shed jobs or even their identities, but most did not go under. Governments became more autocratic, on average.
Here was fine, there was a disaster. But here was just a different kind of disaster. A thick mist drenched in the smoke of flares that kept curling back on us. Why fight a mist if all that lay ahead was more of the same?
Those of us who survived the pandemic, and all the rest, passed through so many different worlds. Like time travelers. Some of us lived in the past. Some in the present, some in an unknowable future. If you lived in the past, you disbelieved the conflagration reflected in the eyes of those already looking back at you. You mistook the pity and anger, how they despised you. How, rightly, they despised you.
So we stitched our way through what remained of life. The wounds deeper. The disconnect higher.
The shock that shattered our bones yet left us standing.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“Hard to enjoy being free,' Hunt countered darkly, 'if you're dead.'
Cormac opened the door, stepping into the swirling shadows. 'I can think of no better reason to yield my life.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen”
Source: Breaking Dawn
“Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745”
“Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.”
“Hard to find and even harder to listen to”
“Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”
“Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.”
“Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.”
“Hard to move on when you always regret one.”
“Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.”
Source: Blacklist
“Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.”
“Hard to say I'm sleeping.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”
“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”
Source: Moon Called
“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”
“Hard Wind
Sister with iron hooves
Together we shall travel steppes
that no man nor mount has seen
Courage will be my saddle
And your bridle shall be my faith in you …”
Source: The Blackgod
“Hard winds and strong ideas have powerful muscles; they can knock you down easily!”
“Hard words are for fools and cowards.”
“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.”
Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.”
Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839
“Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!”
“Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.”
“Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.”
“Hard work always hurts somewhere.”
Source: The Wolf Wilder
“Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far”
“Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.”
“Hard work always wins in the end.”
“Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.”
“Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.”
“Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.”
“Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.”
“Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision”
“Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.”
“Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.”
Source: Find a Way
“Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.”
“Hard work and righteousness are important to God”
“Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.”
“Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.”
“Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.”
“Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.”
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”
“Hard work breeds self-respect.”
Source: Reach for the Summit