Top 100 Hester's Quotes
#1. Less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
Barbara Kingsolver
#2. They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. HESTER'S POOL WAS ALSO FORBIDDEN IN CAL'S world, which was only one of the reasons it was irresistible.
Nora Roberts
#5. I wonder if the boy is a witness, perp, or victim. It bothers me that I can't tell, that a predator can look no different from its prey.
Hester Young
#6. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#7. So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. The way he looks at me, all serious and attentive, was more flattering than any compliment I'd ever had
Hester Browne
#9. Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself.
Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give.
Hester Latterly
Anne Perry
#10. My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
Jacob Epstein
#11. Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome.
Liz Hester
#12. I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#13. - but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready, Hester said.
Harper Lee
#14. He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#15. MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns.
HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#17. I've been foolish." (Hester)
"I hope you at least had a grand time being foolish." (Ariadne)
Grace Burrowes
#18. Hail Ostara, white-clad maiden. Snow and ice melt at your gaze, flowers bloom with each soft step. We who late have longed for spring-time, we welcome you at winter's end. I praise you now, O bright Ostara: Earth's cold cover send from here!
Hester Butler-Ehle
#19. Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.
Carol Gilligan
#20. As with most situations in my life, Emery's dress was much harder to get out of than it had been to get into.
Hester Browne
#23. He told me yesterday that weddings should be individual celebrations of a couple's relationship, ideally with just the bride and groom and a humanist minister. Everything else is merely social pressure to eat tiny cakes.
Hester Browne
#24. Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That's the sign that they are just around the bend
Liz Hester
#25. If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#26. The smile of a stranger can lead you into your joy
Liz Hester
#27. That's one problem I've always had: when I'm anywhere near shit creek, I have to know how far up that creek actually goes." --Hester Day
Mercedes Helnwein
#28. The darkness does not flow from my being to them, but out of their hearts and into my skin. I don't inspire your evil. I never did. You offer it to me, from the gravest crime to the smallest indifference.
Phil Hester
#29. [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#30. I can do what I dream of doing, one breath and one step at a time.
Liz Hester
#31. Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out.
"It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of that phrase matters too."
"But you're making it bad science fiction," Hester said. "And we have to live in it.
John Scalzi
#32. Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. When your heart feels strangely warm, you've found your love
Liz Hester
#34. Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy.
Liz Hester
#35. My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#36. We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#37. My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.
Hester Lucy Stanhope
#38. One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#39. After eyeing her for a moment or two, he said: 'If you let this chance of achieving a respectable alliance slip, you are a bigger fool than I take you for, Hester!' Her eyes came round to his face, a smile quivered for an instant on her lips. 'No, how could that be, Papa?
Georgette Heyer
#40. The world is your mirror...love what you see and you love YOU!
Liz Hester
#41. Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.
Hester Browne
#42. He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.
Clint Hester
#43. Want a partner who can make you feel secure and loved, so you can reach your full potential. Someone who can inspire you and encourage you to try again if things don't work out. Someone who loves you for who you are, not who you might turn into, or who you once were.
Hester Browne
#44. Wall, digging a tunnel under the border, or taking to the water to swim
Hester Vaizey
#46. Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks? Forget it. Straight to hell. Big fat scarlet letter branded on our foreheads for life. Me and Hester Prynne? Same letter, different sins.
Amy Hatvany
#47. In every end is the seed of a new beginning...water it well
Liz Hester
#48. Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.
Devin Hester
#50. It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
Lady Hester Stanhope
#51. With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.
Devin Hester
#52. Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret ... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.
Devin Hester
#53. Stress can make people say things they don't mean, though. That's why you have to relax.
Hester Browne
#54. I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.
Hester Young
#55. Is it ... dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright.
"A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well ...
Philip Reeve
#56. I'm not that nice," I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying "blah." "I just keep my horrible side well hidden.
Hester Browne
#57. Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.
Hester Browne
#58. It would be best to stride in with a cheer "hello!", but she wasn't the cheery sort; she was the "lurking in dark corners" sort. She found a dark corner, behind the Stalker-cases, and lurked.
Philip Reeve
#59. Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me ... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.
Joy Hester
#60. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#61. Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#62. Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!
Lady Hester Stanhope
#63. There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.
Hester Browne
#64. I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#65. Just because some man pays you some attention doesn't mean you're somehow obliged to devote your life to him. You're worth MORE than that.
Hester Browne
#66. I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#67. There is something rather sexy about men who knew exactly what they are talking about. Men who might not be conventionally attractive, but who are obviously highly competent at their jobs.
Hester Browne
#68. Mothers...accept when they have to, let go when they must, but watch out; they'll also turn their back on whoever hurts their child so quickly you'll feel the wind cut your face.
Hester Kaplan
#69. I hate you! I hate you!" Hester was yelling
"Well I care about you, whether you like it or not!" Tom screamed.
Philip Reeve
#70. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
Jacob Latimore
#71. Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate's School (OCS). Most
Stephen E. Ambrose
#72. How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?
Hester Velmans
#73. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.
Hester Browne
#74. Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#75. Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.
Tanya Moir
#76. Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.
Liz Hester
#77. Tonight
Since I'd forgotten for a moment where you are,
I search for you with hope in my bones.
Hester Knibbe
#78. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#79. The Elephant of Depression wasn't just parked on my chest, it was relaxing there with the Walrus of Gloom and the Hippo of Bleak Friday Nights in Alone. They had beers. They were settling in.
Hester Browne
#80. This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite!
Liz Hester
#81. But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed, of the child's whole appearance, that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom. It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#82. MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.
HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.
MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!
Oscar Wilde
#83. A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
Peter De Vries
#84. Great friendships are like cell phones, you do not know why they work but are so glad that they do.
Hester Browne
#85. The best friendships are like mobile phones, I think--you can't explain exactly how they work, but you're just relieved they do.
Hester Browne
#86. The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.
Robert Burchfield
#87. Instead, Hester had been presented at court,
Sylvia Day
#89. ... don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.
Hester Browne
#90. conscious only of his movement upward, the last of Lee Scoresby passed through the heavy clouds and came out under the brilliant stars, where the atoms of his beloved daemons, Hester, were waiting for him.
Philip Pullman
#91. It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.
Hester Browne
#93. Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#94. But our only chance of understanding it is to banish from our minds western conceptions and accept as facts what seem like wild imaginings.
Hester Donaldson Jenkins
#95. Why dost thou smile so at me?" inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes. "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?"
"Not thy soul," he answered, with another smile. "No, not thine!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#96. It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.
Joy Hester
#97. Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#98. There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.
Hester Browne
#99. When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.
Phil Hester
#100. No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
