Salman Habib
The Universe is very large and our brains are very small.
Lal Hagoda
Capturing what is invisible to the eye is truly creative and artistic.
Matt Haig
Ecological destruction is ultimately self-harm.
Gideon Haigh
People will swim through shit for a dollar.
Metin Hakverdi
There are ways to deal with divergent interests, but not with conflicting values.
J.B.S.Haldane
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.
Lord Halifax
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
Oscar Hammerstein
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Hammurabi (Code of Hammurabi 1772BC)
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
Learned Hand
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Peter Handke
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My actions are the ground on which I stand.
Hannibal
We will either find a way, or make one.
Yuval Noah Harari
Animals are the main victims of history.
The treatment of domestic animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Art is a profession, not a shrine.
Thomas Hardy
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. (‘Far from the Madding Crowd')
Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence. (‘Far from the Madding Crowd')
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. (‘Far from the Madding Crowd')
Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. (‘The Return of the Native')
Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants. (‘Far from the Madding Crowd')
Morten Harket
Short-term solutions result in long-term payments.
Robert Harris
Power is for using ('Dictator')
Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. ('Conclave')
The most reliable guide to the future is the past. ('The Fear Index')
It is always the unknown that is most frightening. ('The Fear Index')
I have put in my books - and now my house has a soul. ('Dictator')
Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness. ('Imperium')
Normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes. ('The Fear Index')
Sometimes you have to start a fight to discover how to win. ('Imperium')
A paranoiac is simply a person in full possession of the facts. ('The Ghostwriter')
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. ('The Ghostwriter')
The most interesting things in the world are other people's sex lives and your own money. ('The Fear Index')
What disturbs and alarms man are not the tings but his opinions and fancies about the things. ('The Fear Index')
Every evil is easily crushed at birth; allow it to become established and it always gathers strength. ('Dictator')
It is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement. ('Dictator')
If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.
('Conclave')
The Law of Unintended Consequences: you start off trying to create the origins of the universe and you end up creating eBay.
('The Fear Index')
Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Take time to relax especially when you don't have time for it.
Thomas Harris
The grunts and poesie of sex.
We are elaborations of carbon. (‘Hannibal')
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted. ('Hannibal'
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed. ('The Silence of the Lambs')
When the fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running, but not to help. (‘Hannibal’)
...requiring the use of condoms onscreen, stifling freedom of expression... ('Cari Mora')
He wore the resentful expression of a man whose substance is less than his looks. ('Cari Mora')
Decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. (‘Hannibal')
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. (‘Hannibal')
Wayne Harrison
A good magician never repeats his tricks.
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.
Peter Hartcher
You can have it all, but not all at the same time.
A great power cannot be provoked unless it allows itself to be.
L.P.Hartley
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Henry S.Haskins
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Gerhard Hauptmann
Organised madness is the greatest power in the world.
As soon as you have become master in a field you ought to become pupil in a new one.
Ernst R.Hauschka
You get used to nothing faster than to work slowly.
Temptations are like mosquitoes: kill one and a thousand more come buzzing
There could be no objection to the increase of human knowledge if it would make humans wiser.
Paul Hawken
Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful.
Jacquetta Hawkes
Each age has the Stonehenge it deserves and desires.
Tim Hawkes (headmaster, Kings School)
To succeed sometimes requires mental toughness.
To fail always requires mental toughness. It is not only success that defines us, it is our failures.
Stephen Hawking
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
I think the human race has no future if it doesn't get into space.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
I regard the brain as a computer which stops working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Bill Hayden
Words are like bullets.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Without a theory the facts remain silent.
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. ('The Constitution of Liberty')
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Shirley Hazzard
Existence had been turned over to the experts.
Memories cool to different temperatures at different speeds.
There is no greater tyranny than a continual state of desperation.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
One doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.
When you are old you are presumed to be sage or imbecile. Nothing is permitted in between.
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations.
(all 'The Transit of Venus')
Paul J. Heald ('Death in Eden')
Silence was the most useful tool in interrogation.
Nothing kills a relationship as quickly as contempt.
There's nothing more dangerous than a self-confident man.
Timothy Michael Healy
You cannot make revolution with rosewater, or omelettes without breaking eggs.
Friedrich Hebbel
What you can become you have already.
All governments demand blind belief - even the divine one.
Life is never "Something", but only the opportunity to something.
Ernst Heimeran
To nourish heart and mind there is nothing better than books.
Heinrich Heine
We are all naked inside our clothes.
There is nothing quite as silent as a loaded gun.
Freedom of opinion is only good if you have one.
You ask what love is? A star in a heap of rubbish!
If your good sense annoys you, become a catholic.
In art form is everything, content counts for nothing.
Where they burn books they might burn people too,
Governments can't give us anything without taking away somewhere else.
What a hiding is everyone knows. But nobody has yet figured out what love is.
Every epoch has its own problems, and solving them is what advances mankind.
Basically everyone cries for himself, because only familiar pain will cause a tear.
The beauty of the world always corresponds to the beauty of the mind that looks at it.
Some people think they know all about a bird just because they looked at the egg it came from.
Werner Heisenberg
The ideas are not responsible for whatever people do with them.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Joseph Heller
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Ernest Hemingway
Every whore finds his vocation.
Courage is grace under pressure.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Being a good loser requires one thing - practice.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer's radar, and all great writers
have had it.
Jimmy Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Matthew Henry
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Katherine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
Heraclitus
Nothing endures but change.
George Herbert
When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
Alice Herz-Sommer
Everyone wants to live to be old, but nobody knows how difficult it is.
Hermann Hesse
Art is created by fear of death.
He wins who can love, tolerate and forgive.
Home is not here or there, it is in yourself or nowhere.
Loneliness is the way on which fate guides you to yourself.
Life is loneliness. No one knows the other. Everyone is alone.
To create the possible one has to try the impossible again and again.
Some think they are perfect only because they demand less of themselves.
The paradise is only then appreciated as paradise once we are thrown out of it
Some think they are perfect simply because they don't demand much of themselves.
Those make the best oldies which you can't imagine as old people when you are young.
All knowledge, and every increase in knowledge does not end with a full stop, but with a question mark.
Fiction creates a magic dimension, where the incompatible becomes compatible and the impossible possible.
All knowledge, and every increase in knowledge does not end with a full stop, but with a question mark.
True creative power isolates one and demands something that has to be subtracted from the enjoyment of life.
I must have patience more than knowledge; I must let the roots grow deeper rather than shaking the branches.
Theodor Heuss
Who always tells the truth can afford to have a bad memory.
Heather Heyer
If ur not outraged ur not paying attention.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Patricia Highsmith
People who do not behave in an orthodox manner... are by definition frightening. (‘Deep Water’)
Dieter Hildebrand
The fact that nobody is annoyed, annoys me.
Napoleon Hill
The body achieves what the mind believes.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
L.S.Hilton
I'd always thought that people who believe in horoscopes should be denied the vote; but equally, when the universe
tries to tell you something, it'd dumb not to listen. ('Maestra')
Anthony T. Hincks
Psychiatric institutions are full of good intentions.
A piece of blank paper is always a place of good intentions.
Geoffrey Hinton (about Artificial Intelligence)
You need to imagine something more intelligent than us by the same difference that we're more intelligent than a frog.
Don Hirschberg
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair colour.
Christopher Hitchens
Everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where I think it should in most cases remain.
Alfred Hitchcock
The better the villain, the better the film.
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Adolf Hitler
The higher he aims the more a man grows.
In starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
Thomas Hobbs
Hell is truth seen too late. ('Leviathan')
J.Allan Hobson
Science is institutional scepticism.
Science is our defence against belief.
Rolf Hochhut
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Ralph Hodgson
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Günter HörmannWho fights can lose. Who doesn't fight has lost already.
Jimmy Hoffa
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Eric Hoffer
It's easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.
Abbie Hoffma
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
William M.Holden
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
Alan Hollinghurst
As you get near the end of your life you realise that you’ve wasted nearly all of it.
There is nothing worse than making a bid for someone’s body and getting their soul instead.
(both: 'The Swimming-Pool Library')
Hollywood saying
If the truth gets in the way, stick to the legend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
People do not quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.
Sherlock Holmes
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left - however improbable - must be the truth.
Homer
Achilles absent was Achilles still!
The charity that means little to us can be precious to others.
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Times of crisis are times of enormous social fluidity, when societies can be pushed into a new path, either for good or for bad.
Bob Hope
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
I am never going to retire. I intend to be cracking jokes on my way to the grave.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Hanna Hopko
Democracy without weapons is blah blah blah...
Grace Hopper
The most dangerous word in our language is 'we've always done it this way'.
Horace
Carpe diem - grab the day!
Anger is a momentary madness.
A good scare is better than good advice.
Once spoken the word flys off irrevocably.
When repeated a tenth time it will be accepted.
Luck makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Add a little silliness to all your serious endeavours.
He has half the task done who has made a beginning.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
If you want me to cry, you must first feel grief yourself.
It's suspicious if a merchant praises his wares too highly.
It is foolish to be ashamed of wounds that have not healed.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is gained from books alone.
They change their weather, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
No poem can give lasting pleasure that is written by drinkers of water.
Adversity has the effect of waking talents, which in benign circumstances would have kept sleeping.
You must make many corrections if you mean to write what is worthy to be read a second time; and don't labor for the acclaim of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
John Horgan ("The End of Science")
The journey is what matters, not the destination.
Truth-seeking, not truth itself, is what makes life meaningful.
Adele Horin (Australian Journalist)
It can be a full-time job being unemployed.
Lena Horn
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
A.E.Housman
Knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
John Howard(Australian Prime Minister)
It's not really within the writ of government to condition the human soul.
While compromise is necessary in politics, conviction is the foundation of success.
Fred Hoyle
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
Richard Hu
Recall the greatest cities, and you'll recall their skylines.
A skyline defines a city, and it has cultural and symbolic meaning.
Huang Xiangmo
Money is the milk for politics.
Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is usually interrupted by somebody doing it.
Ricarda Huch
When in love hands and eyes speak louder than the mouth.
Gittel Hudnick
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
Sabine Hübner
It is the How that ennobles the What.
Emotions are the true decision makers.
Arianna Huffington
Fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but rather the mastery of it.
Elli Huffington
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is a stepping stone to success.
Robert Hughes
Television isn’t something you watch, it’s something you make.
Any sight is a sum of different glimpses. ... Reality is interaction. (‘The Shock of the New')
John Hughes
...isn't Sisyphus just another name for memory?
Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact revolution is a right.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun must rise.
To reform a man you must begin with his grandmother.
Life's greatest happiness comes from the conviction to be loved.
To think is work for the intellect; to dream is the intellect's pleasure.
One can resist an intrusion of armies but not an idea whose time has come.
The future has many names. For the weak it is the unattainable; for the timid it is the unknown; but for the brave it is the chance.
Humane Society International
Animals need their fur … we don't.
Alexander von Humboldt
The most dangerous worldview is the one of those who have never viewed the world.
Where one huntsman lives, ten shepherds could live, or a hundred farmers, or a thousand gardeners.
Education and true intelligence exclude cruelty to animals. Such cruelty is the surest sign of the low and ignoble.
Inside into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil
can destroy.
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them they
constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
David Hume
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Hubert H.Humphrey
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.
Barry Humphries
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Ed Husain
You don't fix a problem by being quiet. ... We must name a problem to confront it.
Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
The failure of man to not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying
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.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Anne Hyland
Power in its simplest form is the ability to make things happen.