quotes by people whose name begins with an h:
"The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity. Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart, because you have to expend energy to seperate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together. Thus, in a sense, the gravitational field has a negative energy. In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero."
Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."
Walter C. Hagen
"Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned."
Heinrich Heine, Almansor
"'And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways', Yossarian continued 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverencce can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?'"
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Hermann Hesse, Demian
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"The papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
Thomas Hobbes
"True and false are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood."
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover
"If there is no God, who pops up the next kleenex?"
Art Hoppe
"You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge."
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."
Ed Howe
"Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organised, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole represents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children."
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion