H Quotes
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“Having lived through many troubles in the past, does he have any advice? … He tells me, 'Live your life without considering that the present. Imagine you're walking on the road between two mountains. Present is the ground below. Walk straight ahead and focus on the crossing to the other mountain. Never look down.'
From now on, I will take his advice and try walking straight ahead till I reach the other mountain. When I get there, the present will be gone.”
Source: The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State
“Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.”
“Having lived with a few women, every now and then they seem to want to challenge the power balance in the relationship. They are the takers after all, not the givers, in the sexual sense. And I feel they resent this. They love the opportunity to get on top, or to stick their finger in your ass. I think this challenge of power, is derived from their discontent of sexual submission.”
“Having lived with nothing is the gift that allows me to appreciate the privilege of having everything.”
“Having long ago whispered I want to die, I now realize that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind about it.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Having long-term goals doesn't mean losing sight of short-term priorities.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.”
“Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.”
“Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.”
“Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.”
Source: Nightwings
“Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.”
“Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.”
“Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!”
“Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!”
“Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.”
“Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a "Wirtschaftswunder," which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."”
“Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.”
“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.”
“Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.”
“Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.”
“Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.”
“Having love is more important than having a lover”
“Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.”
“Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.”
“Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.”
Source: Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life
“Having made a firm decision not to slip, if one still slips, it is not a mistake but it is a mistake to slip when one has not even made a firm decision not to.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it.”
Source: Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery
“Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.”
“Having made Jesus your all, you shall find your all in Jesus.”
“Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over man, but man set over beasts... The first cause of servitude is sin, by which man is subjected to man by the bonds of his condition... But by that nature in which God formerly created man, nobody is slave either to man or to sin.”
Source: The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint): A New Translation
“Having made several 911 calls over the years to the police to ‘protect and serve’ me, I was not ‘protected and served’ during many of those encounters.”
“Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?”
“Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.”
“Having made this discovery, she never again felt exalted merely to be in the airy tops of trees, or indeed to be in the upper reaches of any place; thereafter, she understood that for every creature living under a rock or crawling through the mud, there is another equally squirmy thing that flourishes in high realms, because although this is a wondrous world, it is fallen.”
Source: False Memory
“Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."”
“Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Having many bills to pay also makes one a billionaire.”
“Having many enemies means having no peace.”
Source: The Mystical Way and the Arthurian Quest
“Having material things does not translate to inner happiness”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.”
“Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world.”
“Having Miami in a state like Florida makes no sense. You may as well put Los Angeles in the middle of Arkansas. It's not connected, it's just bright and loud and big and... there.”
Source: Southern Dust
“Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not”
“Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.”
“Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.”
“Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.”
“Having money in this world helps but having good character and virtue is priceless”
“Having money is a way of being free of money.”
Source: Happy Death
“Having money is just the best thing in the world.”