Categories Starting with “H”

“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”

— Maya Angelou

“Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!”

— Carlos Castaneda

“Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.”

— Barack Obama

“There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”

— Mark Twain

“There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.”

— Buzz Aldrin

“Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.”

— Noam Chomsky

“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”

— William Shakespeare

“Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.”

— Noam Chomsky

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.”

— Tom Stoppard