H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.”
“Honesty will never break you.”
“Honesty with common sense
is any day better than
morality with convenience.”
Source: Two Paras of Everyday Wisdom : Perspectives & Reflections
“Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.”
“Honesty with yourself about yourself is the only way to ensure you will create a different outcome by changing the roots of your thinking. You cannot change what you do not admit to.”
“Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.”
“Honesty's the best policy.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.”
“Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.”
Source: A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
“Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.”
“Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.”
“Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.”
“Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.”
“Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.”
“Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.”
“Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.”
“Honesty. And I just really think there's a fundamental friendship that needs to exist, whether it's a lover, whether it's a sister...there's just this connection both people need to be effortlessly themselves.”
“Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.”
“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Honey,” Adrian drawled, leaning down to brush a strand of hair out of my face and tuck it behind my ear. My heart took off like a racehorse. “It’s best you realize now how incredibly serious I am about you.”
Source: For the Gods' Sake
“honey, ain't never been wrong yet
you better get back to the city cause you one of them
technical niggers and you'll have problems here”
Source: My House
“Honey and Hickory meant the world to her, but she’d put everything on the line for those she cared about. Misjudged her? Oh yeah. He may as well have compared canned tuna to an ahi steak. She fought for what she wanted, yes. And fought just as hard for others.”
Source: Stirring Up Love
“HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.
GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then?
HONEY: (Terribly interested) No!
GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA)”
Source: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
“Honey, are you being safe?'
'I wear my seat belt, yes.'
'Does this Rob Lovely wear a seat belt too?'
Matty sighed. 'Mother, seat belts should be worn at all times when in a moving vehicle. Didn't you teach me that?'
'So long as we're both talking about condoms here, then I'll leave it.'
'Consider it left.”
Source: Training Season
“Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?”
“Honey, before I became the man who was to marry Olivia Hamilton, I was capable of taking care of myself. I can take care of you, too, for that matter. If you should ever decide to trust me." With that he turned the key. The old pickup's engine rumbled to life and he backed out kicking up fresh gravel.
Livie bristled. She knew he thought her an overindulged debutante, but there was more to her than just being Buckmaster Hamilton's daughter and damned if she wasn't going to prove it to him. If he gave her the chance.”
Source: Wild Horses
“Honey Boo Boo is a handful, baby. She says what she wants to say, does what she wants to do. Ive only seen, like, snippets, like one or two or three, you know, little shots of her, but yeah, shes a handful, baby.”
“Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.”
“Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting.”
“Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.”
Source: Blood Torn
“Honey grevillea
Meaning: Foresight
Grevillea eriostachya | Inland Australia
Kaliny-kalinypa (Pitjantjatjara) is a straggly shrub with long narrow silver-green leaves that produces bright green, yellow and orange flowers. Commonly grows on red sandhills and dunes. The flowers contain thick, honey-like nectar, which can be sucked from the flowers; a favorite treat for Anangu children.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Honey, Half the women in NJ have sold him their cannolli -Conie to Stephanie about Joe Morelli (One for the money)”
Source: One for the Money
“Honey?” I asked.
“Don’t you dare call me that,” Alex growled. Possibly he was kidding. I didn’t want to ask.”
“Honey, I have a feeling he doesn’t think of you as a friend. Have you seen the way he looks at you?”
She glanced at him and as if he could feel her gaze, he turned his eyes on her. Soft and hard all at once. “Yeah,” Mel said. “He promised to stop doing that.”
Source: Virgin River
“Honey: I know these people ...”
Source: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
“Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it.”
Source: Immoral Origins
“Honey, I've lived long enough to know that begging your oppressors to spare you never works. You either fight back, or remind the ones you love there’s something still worth fighting for.”
“Honey, I was a Detective with Homicide for ten years and before that I boosted cars for a living. Trust me, I not only can pick a lock, but I can do it with my eyes closed. The question is how the hell do you know how to pick a lock?” – Jase Devlin”
Source: Nowhere to Hide
“Honey,
I write
The dirty
Way
I’m not afraid
Of going
Into the darkest
Corners
Of the
Word”
Source: Vitality
“Honey, if the man is that dense, you can drag that cot he been sleepin' on into your room, nab his clothes, and lay in wait for him. When he comes lookin' for his things, lock the door and settle the matter once and for all.”
Source: Short-Straw Bride
“Honey is a bee's sweat.”
“Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.”
“Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )”
“Honey isn't really that good for you.”
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people, the lower class. Some of the better-off lower class do show some sympathy for us when they’re smacked with the facts. And when they voice themselves collectively, good things happen.” — Mother Jones”
“Honey, it's no good to ever think that way. We make the decisions we make based on information we have at the time. You did what you thought was right. How could you possibly have known there were such monsters in the world? I didn't know. They killed Genevieve's boyfriend and her grandmother. They killed my mentor and my brother. I still didn't know, not really, not until I saw them for myself. You can't blame yourself for something that is out of your control.”
Source: Dark Carousel
“Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.”
“Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”
“Honey Let's talk. When we talk we make it better.”