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The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch 43
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.
NHNelson Henderson1865–1943
I don’t really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me.
Jimi Hendrix1942–1970Dick Cavett interview (1969)
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Hepburn’s failing health. (January 1993)
- Entertainment
- Movies
You cannot step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 91
- Change
The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things.
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)
By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns.
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Science Fiction and a World in Crisis” in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor
- Change
- Thinking
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus484–425 BCThe Histories, Book 7, Ch. 49.
- Luck
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), PrefaceIn context
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- History
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill1883–1970Often credited to Woodrow Wilson
Wal-Mart, what’s that? Do they, like, make walls there?
Paris Hiltonborn 1981
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Confessions (c. 397), X
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945