H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).”
“hose that dwell create their own hell.”
“Hosea was a prophet to the house of Israel (or Ephraim, as God calls it), and he was calling the people to repentance. The prophets are always calling the people to repentance because it is the very essence of the natural man to sin. Human nature is in direct opposition to the law.”
Source: Ephraim, Man Of The Earth
“Hosni Mubarak was the glue that held very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.”
“Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.”
“Hospice care? No, you must mean Frisbee game. Because there's no way my brother and I aren't outside right now playing Frisbee in the middlle of the street in the middle of summer and there are weird bugs everywhere no matter how much bug spray we put on ourselves and our mom is coming out to tell us for the third and final time, C'mon inside kids, it's getting dark.”
Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass
“Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.”
“Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.”
Source: What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
“Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn’t make them any less hideous. They’re always just a little too cold. It always smells just a little bit too sharp and clean. It’s always quiet, so quiet that you can hear the fluorescent lights - another constant, those lights - humming. Pretty much everyone else there is in the same bad predicament you are, and there isn’t much in the way of cheerful conversation. And there’s always a clock in sight. The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by. Yet it somehow simultaneously has the ability to remind you of how short life is, to make you acutely aware of how little time someone you love might have remaining to them.”
Source: Small Favor
“Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.”
Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Hospitality, as with all the mountain tribes, was - and is still - a most sacred duty; and the man who would slay a chance-met traveller without pity or remorse for the sake of trifling gain, would lay down his life for the very same individual were he to cross his threshold as even an unbidden guest.”
“Hospitality can be an expression of doctrine beyond the pulpit. Hospitality is the means by which the Church, from the ground level, models the gospel to others.”
Source: Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet”
“Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.”
“Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.”
Source: The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World
“Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."' Brother Alphonsus served as a doorkeeper in the seventeenth century at a Jesuit college in Majorca, Spain. Each time someone knocked at the door he would reply, 'I am coming, Lord!' This practice reminded him to treat each person with as much respect as if it were Jesus himself at the door.”
Source: God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God
“Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.”
Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.”
Source: Jazz
“Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.”
“Hospitality is simply love on the loose.”
“Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.”
“Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.”
Source: Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference
“Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.”
Source: Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
“Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.”
“Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”
Source: A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer
“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”
Source: The Jane Addams Reader
“HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.”
“Hospitalière est, par-dessus tout, l’attente/ "Le ciel, de loin, est ciel. De près, il n’est plus rien"/ ... Incommensurable est l’hospitalité du livre.../ [...] « Tout livre s’écrit dans la transparence d’un adieu », disait-il. [...] « L’aurore n’est pas l’adieu – avait-il noté – ; mais tout adieu est l’éblouissante audace d’une aurore. »/ Demain est le coupable horizon [...]”
Source: El libro de la hospitalidad
“Hospitals and doctors are getting rich off a sickened mass population.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.”
Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue
“Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.”
“Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.”
“Hospitals are hotels for sick people.”
“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization”
Source: Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes
“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.”
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.”
“Hospitals are quiet in the wrong way.
Not the kind of quiet that soothes
but the kind that holds its breath.
Metal beds with stiff sheets,
monitors that blink like half-truths.
I watch grief drip slowly from IV bags,
measured, saline, polite.
There’s a chair near the window I never sit in.
It knows too much.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“Hospitals are resorts where sick people vacation.”
“Hospitals are the equivalent of resorts for sick people.”
“Hospitals are wonderful places for saving lives, but they're less effective as places where people heal, physically and mentally. Not the least of the issues is the fat that they never really leave you alone. Beyond the beeping of the machines and the general hum of a hospital all around you, there was a constant parade of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, X-ray technicians, and orderlies, and I was forever being wheeled down two floors to have yet another set of X-rays taken. Beyond worrying I'd glow in the dark for the rest of my life, I wished there could be greater coordination among all the various medical departments so that they could perhaps do one set of X-rays and CAT savages instead of the multiples ones they kept ordering. I realize it didn't help that the snowcat had managed to break or mangle so many disparate parts of my body, but still.”
Source: My Next Breath
“Hospitals cannot continue to hemorrhage. For the country as a whole, medical insurance premiums include a surcharge that pays for treating the uninsured. However, if the proportion of uninsured indigent patients exceeds a certain figure, a hospital has no choice but to close. In California alone, the heavy cost of free medicine for foreigners forced no fewer than 60 hospitals to shut down between 1993 and 2003; many others were on the verge of collapse. From 1994 to 2004, the number of hospital emergency rooms in the country as a whole dropped by more than 12 percent.
In May 2010, Miami’s health care system was so strapped, it was considering closing two of its five public hospitals. This would mean laying off 4,487 employees and the loss of 581 acute-care beds. Experts explained that treating uninsured patients had stretched the system to the breaking point.
Houston is a good example of a city whose hospitals are barely making ends meet. In the nation as a whole, about 15 percent of the population has no medical insurance, but Texas, with its large population of Hispanics, has the highest percentage at 24 percent. In Houston, the figure is 30 percent. The safety net cannot accommodate so many people who cannot pay. “Does this mean rationing?” asks Kenenth Mattox, chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital. “You bet it does.”
There is such a crush at Houston’s emergency rooms that ambulances often wait for one or two hours before they can even unload patients. The record wait is six hours. Twenty percent of the time, hospitals end up sending patients to other hospitals, and some have died after being diverted. Politicians and businessmen pull strings so friends can cut in line.
Americans who fall sick in Mexico do not get free treatment. The State Department warns that Mexican doctors routinely refuse to treat foreign patients unless paid in advance, and that they often charge Americans for services not rendered.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Hospitals in almost every country have reported outbreaks of C. diff, and the number and severity of cases continues to soar. In 2010 there were 350,000 cases of C. diff diagnosed in U.S. hospitals. That means that of 1,000 patients admitted to U.S hospitals, 10 will become infected with C. diff, most of them elderly. In some hospitals and nursing homes, as many as one in five patients is infected.”
“Hospitals meant illness and death to her. The two most important people in her life had gasped their last breaths in hospitals: her mother and Ian. And both had been nightmares to endure.”
Source: Tall, Dark & Hungry
“Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.”
“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.”
Source: Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures
“Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.”
Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“Host: For those of you just tuning in, our guests tonight are the amazing Murder Magician, and his lovely minion, The Assistant...
Assistant: Charmed, I'm sure
Host: Who recently killed The Rumor. And you were awarded the Oppenheimer prize for villainy at last week's annual summit for dastardly deeds-- what are you going to do with all that money?
Murder Magician: Well, I'm so glad you asked that-- because I spent all the money on this giant MURDERBOT, and I've been dying to show it off!
Assistant: It's true... every penny.
Host: Wow! That's impressive! So what does it do?
Murder Magician: Well, Mr. Clark... it murders people.
Laughter.
Murder Magician: I'm serious.
Assistant: He is.”
Source: The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite