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Quotations (H)
Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
H.R. Haldeman
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognizeability.
Alexander Hamilton
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
John Hardwick
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
Richard Harkness
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Lucille S. Harper
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Sydney J. Harris
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Paul Harvey
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Stephen Hawking
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
F.A. Hayek
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
Never mistake motion for action.
Howard Hendricks
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential
Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Katherine Hepburn
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Don Herold
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Alfred Hitchcock
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Today Europe tomorrow the world
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
All great world shaking events have been brought about, not by written matter, but by the spoken word
Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
William M. Holden
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
John Andrew Holmes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
Lou Holtz
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Elbert Hubbard
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Victor Hugo(1802-1885)
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Sigfried Hulzer
There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.
Hubert Humphrey
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
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