H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.”
Source: Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions in Traumatized Children
“However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.”
“However, they were still banned, so that humans could chart their own destiny.”
Source: The Polymorph
“However thin or fat you are is no indicator of the love you deserve or will receive.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“However things took an unexpected turn when, out of the blue, the host of the radio show asked me who I would consider to be the best dog fiction writer ever. I don't think I have ever been asked that question before, nor can I remember thinking about it seriously, however I knew what my answer would be immediately—Albert Payson Terhune. – Stanley Coren, ‘The Best Dog Fiction Writer Ever? – Psychology Today online article.”
“However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA by refusing to turn over the documents sought in the FOIA requests, and so cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain in detail the reasons why its actions do not violate the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me; but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules—a veritable Catch-22. I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the Executive Branch of our Government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret.”
“However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia” except insofar as giving a woman a voice and an inner life will always be considered “feminist” by those who think women ought not to have these things. (Scientific Romancing)”
Source: Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
“However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?”
Source: The Thief of Always
“However, this saving grace can be stunted. We can stop at this point where we will be actually saved; but, we will not be working out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). The person can live and die only at the stage of being saved and Christ will not be formed in him. If this happens, we will be infants in Christ; we will live a very superficial Christian life and a life that is full of struggles and conflicts. Paul calls it a life according to the flesh and in other places in the Bible it is called the state of spiritual childhood.”
Source: The Inner Man & the Formation of Christ
“However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having occurred to him.”
“However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?”
Source: Maldoror and Poems
“However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.”
Source: The Collected Plays [Jean Anouilh]
“However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.”
“However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!”
“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones”
Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University
“However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“However true or not they may be to us, the trouble with all those tired, platitudinous, hackneyed mantras, which go along the lines of 'Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship,' is that many of us use them not as cries to embrace the grace of God but rather as licenses and/or excuses to celebrate sin. Make way for our beloved and ready, willing and able Christ to clean up your life already.”
Source: Healology
“However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.”
“However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.”
“However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.”
“However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.”
Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
“However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“However unpopular Yeltsin may have been, traditionalist loyalty was already being forcefully redirected toward the new powers of the presidency. There is a story that so clearly and beautifully illustrates this that I will recount it here, though I cannot, unfortunately, remember where I read it. A journalist was speaking with an old woman who lived in poverty. The woman was going on, tearing Yeltsin apart, while speaking wistfully of the Soviet regime. When the journalist asked her whom she would support in the upcoming presidential election, she answered, ‘Yeltsin’. ‘But what about Zyuganov?’ ‘When Zyuganov’s president, we’ll vote for Zyuganov.’ There were a great many such old women; in fact everyone, including both Yeltsin’s active opponents and the democrat-intellectuals, was to one degree or another an old lady of this kind. The fear of a change in power, of a return to revolutionary chaos, proved stronger than dissatisfaction with the government. Yeltsin’s supporters’ avowals that power would not be handed to the Communists even if they won the election, which in some countries would have stirred mass indignation, worked in the president’s favour in Russia.”
Source: Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System
“However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.”
Source: On Liberty
“However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.”
“However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.”
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.”
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
“However, very little thought, or for that matter, information, is given as to how Allah veils His Truths. One way that the Truth is veiled is through the veil of: the fear of appearing or becoming insane or “crazy.” Other veils include: becoming or appearing a fool, the veil of obviousness, the veil of shame, the veil of no longer being concerned with “stations” on the path, the veil of behaving contrary to Shariah, the veil of heresy, and the veil of leaving the Path.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.”
“However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.”
Source: Collected Works
“However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.”
“However vivid be one’s recollection of the past, any attempt to recall the features of a beloved being shows them to one’s vision as through a mist of tears—dim and blurred. Those tears are the tears of the imagination.”
Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of past and future". That was Sylvia's genius and her Panic Bird- her total lack of nostalgia. She had no armor. This left her especially vulnerable in New York, where she was removed from the context of her life, severed from that reassuring arc.”
Source: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
“However, we all sin by omission. Therefore, we are all sinners in constant need of a 'Savior'."
~R. Alan Woods [2010]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It’s like being in a family.”
“However, we live in turbulent times, and it’s more important than ever that we learn how to open up dialogue and connect with people who are different from us.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.”
“However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.”
Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings
“However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”
“However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“However, we must not look on this domination of the Virtual as something inevitable. Above all, we must not take the Virtual for a 'reality' (definitely going too far!) and apply the categories of the real and the rational to it.(...)”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.”
“However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.”
“However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.”
“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”
“However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.”
“However well we got to know each other, there was always a magic. A mystery. We could lie in bed looking silently at each other, not needing to speak. Joe's eyes were never boring. He was never boring.”
Source: The Party Crasher