H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Have you ever noticed when you're in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You'll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.”
“Have you ever noticed, the saddest person has the most beautiful smile”
“Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.”
Source: The Verificationist: A Novel
“Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.”
Source: Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
“Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.”
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Have you ever opened a book with zero expectations but by the last page, it’s gripped your heart? That was how I discovered my all time favourite book. The small bookshop I was at didn’t carry the title I wanted, so I ended up browsing and picking up something else. A real stroke of good luck.”
Source: Księgarnia Napojów Księżyca
“Have you ever paid notice to the full sound range of your voice? If you have ever been in a chorus or a singing group, you already know that they will separate the group based on each singer’s pitch and assign their roles accordingly. While my speaking voice has a soprano pitch, my singing voice is a lower alto.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”
Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel
“Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”
I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? “Not really.”
“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,” she said. “It’s a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces—the pawns—are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play, I protect my pawns.”
“Why?” I said, not entirely sure where this conversation was going. “If they’re weak, then what’s the point?”
“They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they’ll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you’re careful—if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your opponent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?”
I shook my head, and she smiled.
“Your pawn becomes a queen.” She touched my cheek, her fingers cold as ice. “Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game. Never forget that, all right? Never forget the potential one solitary pawn has to change the entire game.”
Source: Pawn
“Have you ever played Killer Bunnies?” she asked.
“Killer Bunnies?” he repeated, blinking the way people always did when they didn’t follow her brain’s train.
“It’s a card game. Not spades and clubs, kings and jacks cards. It’s like a board game, with cards instead of a board. Here. I’ll show you.” She stretched up to the top shelf beside her TV and pulled down a bright blue box. “But I have to warn you, I never hesitate to use the nuclear warheads or the anti-matter raisins. Your bunnies are going down.”
Source: Sugared
“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner has all the money, and everyone else has nothing. Woohoo! So much fun! That's literally how America works. That's why there are a few super rich people who own almost everything, and tens of millions of dirt poor people who have nothing.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you.”
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.”
Source: The Wild Ass's Skin
“Have you ever pondered of the following:
Space is a home for the Universe.
The Universe is a home for its Galaxies.
The Milky Way Galaxy is a home for the Solar System.
The Solar System is a home for our planet.
The Earth is a home for organic life forms.
Your house or apartment is your home.
Your body is a home for your soul; and yet for trillions of cells your organism consists of.
A cell is a home for its molecules.
A molecule is a home for its atoms.
An atom is a home for its components, such as protons, electrons, and neutrons.
Etc.
The world is all about homes!”
Source: A Dream of Two Moons Novel
“Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairy tale!”
“Have you ever questioned a world bound by money? What might your soul seek, unshackled from material desires? Often, scarcity reinforces the importance of something—money, in this case—but that is merely an illusion, which hides its true value that is only revealed in abundance.”
“Have you ever reached a truly quiet state of mind?”
Source: U-Day
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you have just 100 dollars and He is asking you to execute a 400 million dollar project. Have you reached to the point that you consider going further will make no sense? Have you reached the point where you asked God are you sure you are still with me?
I just found myself in that Junction now. Turning back ....to realise I have gone too far for Him to forsake me. Moving forward I heard the voice saying ...be still and know that I am your God. Giving up.....Couldn't find it in my dictionary.
Moral of the lesson. God cannot give you an assignment that is equal to your pocket. If it suits your pocket it is definitely not from God. Remember God will not take glory where nothing happen.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Have you ever read a book with a twist ending that catches you so off guard you reread it to see what subtle clues you might have missed the first time?”
Source: This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
“Have you ever read a story that jumps into the past, present, and future, breaking the traditional view of time as a straight line or as waves flowing from the past into the future, or as a one-way river? Time is like this, not a river, nor waves, nor a straight line.”
Source: Zero Moment: Do not be afraid, this is only a passing novel and will end
“Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.”
“Have you ever realized after each obstacle you come out fine, so why not use the pain to build you up.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Have you ever realized that your every worry is an invitation to draw closer to God? That every anxiety in your life compels you to direct your gaze to someplace or someone?”
“Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Have you ever really ( I mean really, really) thought about what we as women, as supHEReroes, can accomplish if we worked together? The barriers we would undo, doors we could knock down, glass ceilings we could obliterate? We are so much stronger together than we are separate. Think about that.”
“Have you ever really watched him? I bet he'd found out everything about Jabbar by the time he'd talked to him for ten minutes. I bet he knows the name of every camel. And he'll remember it all. People don't take that much interest in other people, usually.' Her fingers idly traced a pattern in the sand. 'So he makes you feel important.'
'Politicians do that-' Vimes began.
'Not the way he does, believe me. I expect Lord Vetinari remembers facts about people-'
'Oh, you'd better believe that!'
'-but Carrot takes an interest. He doesn't even think about it. He makes space in his head for people. He takes an interest, and so people think they're intesting. They feel... better when he's around.”
Source: Jingo
“Have you ever ridden a dragon?”
“Only in my dreams,” she purred, her voice dipping low. “Though that was a very different kind of ride.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”
Source: Democracy and other Addresses
“Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.”
Source: Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate
“Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if ever you wanted one thing twice, if ever you said, "You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!" then you wanted all back. All anew, all eternally, all entangled, ensnared, enamored--oh then you loved the world. Eternal ones, love it eternally and evermore; and to woe too, you say: go, but return! For all joy wants--eternity.”
“Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.”
“Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“Have you ever seen a big dog, tied with rope? You might think, 'Why doesn't it just bite off the leash and go free? It can, it is big enough.' But the dog never will because it never thinks to.”
Source: The Last Black Dragon
“Have you ever seen a bird standing still for too long? A short rest and then action again, that's how a bird lives and that's how you should live too!”
“Have you ever seen a boulder along the ocean? Rock solid, standing tall under the sun, the rain, and the wind. Then one day, a tidal wave hits, and the boulder shatters down into pieces, shocking everyone. What nobody knows is that the boulder had been weak for a long time. Tiny cracks had formed with every lash of the wind, every splash of the wave, every betrayal of destiny. It was already broken inside. The last stroke just disassembled it, shattering it for the world to see.
I am that boulder.”
Source: As Night Falls
“Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?”
Source: Washington is leaking
“Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.”
“Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.”
“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”
“Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!”
“Have you ever seen a god laugh? It makes you catch your breath and feel hopeful and shivery and excited all at the same time. That's how it was watching Cal.”
Source: Book of Shadows
“Have you ever seen a jealous person acting nice? Jealousy and hate are really close. They don't hate you;they hate what you stand for.”
“Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?”
“Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.”
“Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?”
“Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.”
“Have you ever seen a stone, molded into an idol; Shining with raw pride as people pray and call. As I observe the world, shutting its eyes to worship; Is it a soul seeking God or a man searching for his soul?”
Source: Expired Nuances: Collection of Poems about Life , Loss , Pain and Hope