H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.”
“How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.”
“How was your journey?" he asked.
"You don't have to make small talk with me," she said. "I don't like it, and I'm not very good at it."
They paused at the shade of portico, beside a sweet-scented bower of roses. Casually Lord St. Vincent leaned a shoulder against a cream-painted column. A lazy smile curved his lips as he looked down at her. "Didn't Lady Berwick teach you?"
"She tried. But I hate trying to make conversation about weather. Who cares what the temperature is? I want to talk about things like... like..."
"Yes?" he prompted as she hesitated.
"Darwin. Women's suffrage. Workhouses, war, why we're alive, if you believe in séances or spirits, if music has ever made you cry, or what vegetable you hate most..." Pandora shrugged and glanced up at him, expecting the familiar frozen expression of a man who was about to run for his life. Instead she found herself caught by his arrested stare, while the silence seemed to wrap around them.
After a moment, Lord St. Vincent said softly, "Carrots."
Bemused, Pandora tried to gather her wits. "That's the vegetable you hate most? Do you mean cooked ones?"
"Any kind of carrots."
"Out of all vegetables?" At his nod, she persisted, "What about carrot cake?"
"No."
But it's cake."
A smile flickered across his lips. "Still carrots."
Pandora wanted to argue the superiority of carrots over some truly atrocious vegetable, such as Brussels sprouts, but heir conversation was interrupted by a silky masculine voice.
"Ah, there you are. I've been sent out to fetch you."
Pandora shrank back as she saw a tall msn approach in a graceful stride. She knew instantly that he must be Lord Sy. Vincent's father- the resemblance was striking. His complexion was tanned and lightly time-weathered, with laugh-lines at the outer corners of his blue eyes. He had a full head of tawny-golden hair, handsomely silvered at the sides and temples. Having heard of his reputation as a former libertine, Pandora had expected an aging roué with coarse features and a leer... not this rather gorgeous specimen who wore his formidable presence like an elegant suit of clothes.
"My son, what can you be thinking, keeping this enchanting creature out in the heat of midday?”
Source: Devil in Spring
“How was your night?" I asked, my voice carefully neutral as I attempted to break the ice. My spying adventures still hung uncomfortably between us. "Interesting.Yours?" "Not so much." "Homework was brutal,huh?" He was making fun of me. "I didn´t do homework." He had the smile of a fow. "Who did you do?" I was speechless a moment. I stood there with my mouth slightly open. "Was that an innuendo?" "Just curious what my competition is." "Grow upp." His smile stretched. "Loosen up.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“How was your sleep?" Ellie asked as she poked tiny holes into the dirt with her index finger.
When Jonathan didn't reply, Ellie glanced up and saw his haunted expression. That he was lost in a pocket of evil memories, was evident.”
Source: Present History
“How was your trip, dear? God a little lost, did you?"
"Yeah," Mei said. "The world is bigger than I remember, especially going on my own."
"It usually is," Hugo said. "That's the beauty of it. But you're home now, so don't you worry.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“How was your trip?" Zeph asked. "Did they teach you how to hunt? You're growing up so fast."
"I'm older than you," Xavi protested. "And I know how to hunt. This wasn't for beginners. I killed a snake!"
Zeph stepped back and put on his surprised face for Xavi to see. "A real snake, not just a vine? Well, I guess you have your adult feathers now. What did you fall in? You're sticky."
“It was a big snake. Like, bigger than three gryphons.” Xavi looked around for a gryphon to illustrate his point.
Hatzel had glided down and was giving them a strange look. A tiny gryphlet bounded up to chirp at Hatzel and see if she wanted to play. While Xavi was trying to point at Hatzel, Zeph sat back on his haunches and measured out the size of the gryphlet from shoulder to shoulder, and expanded it by three.
Xavi sighed. “No, like three Hatzels.”
“Now you’re just telling tales,” Zeph protested. “Nothing as big as three Hatzels.”
“This is why I throw rocks at you,” Hatzel said as she took the gryphlet back to the nests.”
Source: Eyrie
“How was your... eh... trip?" Artemis felt the sting of tears in his own eyes. "Um, eventful.”
“How watchful we must be to keep the crystal well that we were made, clear!—that it be not made turbid by our contact with the world, so that it will not reflect objects. What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds,—if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool? Often we are so jarred by chagrins in dealing with the world, that we cannot reflect.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.”
“How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.”
“How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.”
“How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.”
“How we allow ourselves to be fed is a metaphor—if ever there was one—for the vibrational quality of what we're willing to 'take in' that goes well beyond the act of filling our bellies. It's an energetic statement of intent.”
“How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.”
“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.”
“How we are born to invent our own miseries!”
“How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.”
“How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.”
“How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.”
“How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.”
“How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.”
“How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.”
Source: The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
“How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“How we choose to react to circumstances that arise holds substantially more weight than the circumstances themselves.”
“How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.”
“How we communicate our dream to others determine whether or not they will do whatever is required to bring it to pass even after we are gone from the earth.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.”
“How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.”
“How we continue to innocently decimate each other
and blame gravity, god knows.”
“How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.”
“How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.”
“How we decide to view the world defines the world.”
“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.”
“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood highways, level entire cities if summoned with enough force.”
Source: Insomniacs, We
“How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no longer laughed, from then on it was tittering). Commenting. Losing our composure. Falling in love, developing obsessions, and growing resentful when our shallow affections were ignored.”
Source: Insurrections: Stories
“How we do in life may be less important than whether we embrace our own particular destiny.”
Source: The Fall of Never
“How we dress is, as far as I can tell, the only inescapably public choice that we have. People don't need to know what you eat, people don't need to know who you have sex with. But there's no escaping what you wear and the fact that you've chosen it. Even if you insist that you don't care about fashion, that's your statement. It's really one realm of life where you are forced to make your own statement.”
“How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1950-2012
“How we eat can change the world”
“How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.”
“How we enter and honor our relationships, treat others and ourselves, give and receive—these are all measures of life lived with integrity.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.”
“How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.”
Source: Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
“How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.”
Source: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
“How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.”
“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?”
Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
“How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested in
our life.”