H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.”
“had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes”
“Had an amazing weekend hanging with my pals.”
“Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!”
“Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!”
“Had any children? the doctor asks. I say No.
And close my lips—the other half of the answer.
If this were a party, I'd feel I had to go on,
even if the other person hadn't asked
Why not? Or Are you planning on having any?
They feel free to ask. And almost always, I explain
something about wanting them but not enough,
or how I wish I had two lives: in one of them
I'd have a child by now. But it's no good,
not doing something never sounds as real as doing it. I seem to stand in for reserve,
my life a keeping back, a state of being
not in active service.”
Source: No Moon
“Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?”
Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
“Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'”
“Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.”
Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“Had blundered into the unlikely journey knowing nothing, breathing grief like a sour gas. Hoping for oxygen soon.”
Source: The Shipping News
“Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.”
“Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.”
“Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.”
“Had Chinese Food & my fortune cookie read, "Be not afraid to walk through the door of opportunity". So I left the restaurant without paying...”
“Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.”
“Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.”
“Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.”
“Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)
“Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.”
Source: Overtime: A Tor.Com Original
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Had Garnacho’s magnificent goal against Everton been scored on home ground, the stadium would have exploded. In the eyes of haters the diamond in your hand looks like the ordinary stone.”
“Had Garnacho’s magnificent goal against Everton been scored on home ground, the stadium would have exploded. Rather Goodison Park, the venue of the match, received the goal with graveyard silence. In the eyes of haters the diamond in your hand looks like the ordinary stone.”
“Had God created Love to make pain feel even worse?”
“Had God kept from being made those who through His goodness were to have existence, but who by their own choice were to become evil, then evil would have prevailed over the goodness of God. Thus, all things which God makes He makes good, but each one becomes good or evil by his own choice. So, even if the Lord did say: 'It were better for him if that man had not been born,' He did not say so in deprecation of His own creature, but in deprecation of that creature's choice and rashness.”
“Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.”
“Had He (Jesus) not offered Himself through the Holy Ghost, He would not be accepted in the eyes of God the Father. Nor would He have endured the sufferings of the cross. Had He not presented Himself through the Holy Ghost, His blood would not have remained pure and spotless. And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned.”
Source: Good Morning, Holy Spirit
“Had he actually walked streets of quiet cars, Sunday morning peace of the Tiergarten, so far away?
Another life. Ice cream, a taste that could never have existed. Now they boiled nettles and were glad to get
them. God, he cried out. Won't they stop? The huge British tanks came on. Another building, it might have
been an apartment house or a store, a school or office; he could not tell — the ruins toppled, slid into
fragments. Below in the rubble another handful of survivors buried, without even the sound of death. Death
had spread out everywhere equally, over the living, the hurt, the corpses layer after layer that already had
begun to smell. The stinking, quivering corpse of Berlin, the eyeless turrets still upraised, disappearing
without protest like this one, this nameless edifice that man had once put up with pride.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Had he been compromised? Or could it be that he had finally uncovered the identity of Kuklovoda, the ‘Puppet Master’ deep within the KGB that had ‘pulled the strings’ on some of the most audacious terrorist attempts on American soil in the past decade or more?”
Source: White Room: A Cold War Thriller
“Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear--a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Had he ever not been in love with her? He could barely remember a time he did not want her. Did not need her. Did not adore her with every part of his body and soul.”
Source: So Over You
“Had he expected me to hump her leg?”
Source: Magic Bites
“Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Had he known what he knew now, he would definitely do things differently.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.”
Source: Old School
“Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilisations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, “All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas,” and so he was obliged to assert gentility, lest he slip into the abyss where nothing counts, and the statements of Democracy are inaudible.”
Source: Howards End
“Had he made the entire world his victim, he still would not have been able to banish his introjected father from his bedroom, for once own unconscious cannot be destroyed by destroying the world.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.”
“Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?”
Source: decline and fall
“Had he only thought there was amazing chemistry between them?”
Source: Luck of the Draw
“Had he read about Lord Lucifer? Did he know the man was him? Had he read the sinful thoughts Miss Hamilton had about him? Violet had written them too honestly and explicitly for publication. She had intended to go back and edit out some of the more wicked lines. They had been little more than girlish fantasies she had set to paper. Those lines came out to torment her now.
He was depravity and his name was Lord Lucifer, the dark angel himself come to earth to tempt innocents. Rose had never so wanted to be debauched as when he gazed upon her.
And this one: She stared at his mouth, the sensual lips and pink tongue licking at the drop of honey, and she longed to feel him licking at her.
Oh, dear God! Neither of those were ever meant to see the light of day. She had written the last one in a heated moment after coming home from a ball where he had eaten a honey-drenched fig.”
Source: The Devil and the Heiress
“Had he worn a sweater tied around his neck he could have served as the undeniable unintentional intimidating model poster boy for all the ever disappearing middle-class parents who saw the brochure for any ivy league school and were dreading money they had to shell out.”
Source: Whisky Hernandez
“Had Heidegger attached his great ego to the cause of international socialism, he would have enjoyed the whitewash granted to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Hobsbawm and the other apologists for the Gulag.1 But the cause of national socialism could enjoy no such convenient excuse, and the sin was compounded, in Heidegger’s case, by the fact that it was precisely the national, rather than the socialist aspect of the creed that had attracted him.”
Source: Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
“Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.”
“Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”
Source: Mr. Mulliner Speaking
“had his fingerprints taken and coffeemug shot taken from all four angles of him sipping a cup of coffee”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”
Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
“Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.”
“Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.”
Source: The works: With a biographical sketch