H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”
Source: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
“Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.”
“Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.”
“Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.”
“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”
Source: Laws
“Hardly any one hires an organization architect to prepare an organization structure. That is one of the reasons, Houses last longer than the organizations.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.”
Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation
“Hardly any part of anyone's conduct concerns only himself.”
Source: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“Hardly any relationship would have ended if one-sided efforts could save a relationship.”
“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.”
“Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.”
“Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras. There isn't anybody that worked on this show that doesn't look at security cameras differently than when they started.”
“Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.”
“Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“Hardly anyone in the world is an American”
“Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.”
“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”
“Hardly anyone today thinks about sex. We joke about it, dream about it, watch movies about it, listen to music about it, lust about it. But we don't ever really think about it.”
“Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.”
“hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”
Source: Tunnel of Love: A Novel
“Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.”
“Hardly anything wrong can go bad.”
“Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.”
“Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Hardly had Juana had time to get settled when there was a clatter in the courtyard. The night sprang into excitement; instructions were shouted, torches brought. And suddenly the doors burst open; suddenly Philip -- hot, handsome, disheveled -- strode in.
Philip was blond and sturdy; the gunpowder-train of Juana's emotions, long and dark and twisting, exploded at last. Philip's eyes must have seen, if nothing else, a girl in virginal flush, a young body of sixteen. He could hardly endure the formal presentations of the nobles. As soon as they were ended, he did what is generally referred to as commanding the nearest cleric to marry them on the spot. This person, however -- the Spaniard don Diego Villaescusa, Dean of Jaen -- it was not in Philip's power to order about. But the fact that it must have been Juana who gave the command only serves to underline the mutuality of their haste and hunger. The Dean did as he was bidden; the ignited youngsters kneeled; Philip hurried Juana out. In a room on the rez de chaussee overlooking the turbulent river they tore off their clothes. Someone had managed to get a gilded crucifix nailed on the ceiling above the bed -- surely one of the unnoticed ornaments (and, as things turned out, one of the most inappropriate) ever put up.”
“Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.”
Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began
to affect the netting under which the three children lay.
It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic
sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was
accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries.
The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and
chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother
had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little
one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in
a very low tone, and with bated breath:--
"Sir?"
"Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes.
"What is that?"
"It's the rats," replied Gavroche.
And he laid his head down on the mat again.
The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the
elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already
mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as
it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same
as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good
story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in
throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun
to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap.
Still the little one could not sleep.
"Sir?" he began again.
"Hey?" said Gavroche.
"What are rats?"
"They are mice."
This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in
the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he
lifted up his voice once more.
"Sir?"
"Hey?" said Gavroche again.
"Why don't you have a cat?"
"I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate
her."
This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little
fellow began to tremble again.
The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:--
"Monsieur?"
"Hey?"
"Who was it that was eaten?"
"The cat."
"And who ate the cat?"
"The rats."
"The mice?"
"Yes, the rats."
The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate
cats, pursued:--
"Sir, would those mice eat us?"
"Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche.
The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:--
"Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch
hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!”
Source: Les Misérables
“Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep?”
“Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more”
Source: Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland
“Hardly," I replied. "He despises me. Although probably not as much as I detest him."
Tara smirked. "My, we certainly have strong feelings for someone, don't we? Are you sure you detest him, or is it something else?”
Source: Prom & Prejudice
“Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.”
Source: Good-bye to all that
“Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.”
“Hardness ever of hardness is mother.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspere
“Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.”
Source: Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904
“Hardness shatters; strength endures.”
“Hardship and poverty are what make the devil’s name echo in your mind like a relentless alarm.”
“Hardship and suffering are the forge upon which we are molded, the flames that temper and strengthen our spirits. To accept them is not to succumb to them, but to embrace the journey that they bring. For it is through adversity that we find our truest selves, and it is in embracing our destiny that we find our greatest purpose.”
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.”
Source: The Black Book
“Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.”
“Hardship could exploit the worst in people as they struggled to survive, forcing them to do things they'd never consider. But then there were those who always had that darkness in them, the ones who were predators long before they faced adversity.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“Hardship is a dual unbending quality, it builds friction but also provides unique handling.”
“Hardship is a hard discipline.”
“Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else’s!”
“Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.”
“Hardship makes the world obscure.”
Source: The Names
“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”
“Hardship of justice is far more honorable than kinship of disparity.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Hardship of today is tomorrow's sweetness.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science