Quotes of Hf through Hz

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"A couple of medieval songwriters come up with the idea of chivalry one rainy day, and you embrace it as a lifestyle. You live and die by an idea that was 'trendy' when you were a kid!" - Highlander: The Series

"He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." - Jim Hightower (on George Herbert Walker Bush)

"It's never crowded along the 'extra mile.'" - Napoleon Hill

"Roses are reddish

Violets are bluish

If it weren't for Christmas

We'd all be Jewish." - Benny Hill

"If I am not for myself, who is for me?

And if I am only for myself, what am I?

And if not now, when?" - Hillel

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy." -Hippocrates

"Walking is man's best medicine." - Hippocrates

"I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle." - Alfred Hitchcock

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating." - Alfred Hitchcock

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" - Adolf Hitler

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler

"If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they will find an easier way to do it." - Hlade's Law

"The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see." - Russell Hoban

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." - Bill Hoest

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." - Eric Hoffer

"The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves." - Eric Hoffer

"Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner." - Eric Hoffer

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity." - Eric Hoffer

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart." - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Man

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - Eric Hoffer

"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year." - Abbie Hoffman

"I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way." - Abbie Hoffman

"Never limit your view of life by any past experience." - Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others" - John Andrew Holmes

"Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live, I am coming.'" - Oliver Wendall Holmes

"A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order." - Rita Holt

"Abuse of power comes as no surprise" - Jenny Holzer

"Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force" - Jenny Holzer

"Boredom makes you do crazy things" - Jenny Holzer

"Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity" - Jenny Holzer

"Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations" - Jenny Holzer

"Drama often obscures the real issues" - Jenny Holzer

"It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons" - Jenny Holzer

"Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of" - Jenny Holzer

"Lack of charisma can be fatal" - Jenny Holzer

"Romantic love was invented to manipulate women" - Jenny Holzer

"Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later" - Jenny Holzer

"Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison" - Jenny Holzer

"Stupid people shouldn't breed" - Jenny Holzer

"Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance" - Jenny Holzer

"What urge will save us now that sex won't?" - Jenny Holzer

"You must remember you have freedom of choice" - Jenny Holzer

"To give you an idea of how fast we traveled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two." - Bob Hope

"Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome." - Hope Floats

"Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me." - Hope Floats

"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you for the rest of your life... every time you say 'we've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours." - Grace Hopper

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships were built for." - Grace Hopper

"Nobody's interested in sweetness and light." - Hedda Hopper

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne

"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers" - Marina Horner

"He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty." - Sam Houston

"We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens." - Vernon Howard

"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better." - Ed Howe

"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough." - Ed Howe

"For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Bette Howland

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." - Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Elbert Hubbard

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." - Elbert Hubbard

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs." - Elbert Hubbard

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought." - Kin Hubbard

"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it." - Kim Hubbard

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." - Kin Hubbard

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." - L. Ron Hubbard in 1949 (who founded the Church of Scientology in 1953)

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free" - Charles Evans Hughes

"Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can." - Richard Hughes

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo

"Men hate those to whom they have to lie." - Victor Hugo

"They who advocate the death penalty must be in love with shortcuts." - Jan van Huizum

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." - Raymond Hull

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"If the truth is out there, what's in here?" - Nick Humphries

"Ed & Ivy: Together for the time being." - graffiti in the women's bathroom at Hunter College

"Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." - Aldous Huxley

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'" - Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Aldous Huxley

"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful." - Aldous Huxley

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." - Aldous Huxley

"God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me." - Thomas Huxley

"Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living." - Chrissie Hynde

"Always drive on roads, not on people." - ad for Hyundai

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