H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.”
Source: Double Standards
“How am I going to help you?”
“You are going to jump.”
“Ha.”
“You are.”
“Have you done this before?”
“Yeah, with fruit.” That was Xav.
“And why am I not reassured?”
Source: Stealing Phoenix
“How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?”
“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”
Source: The Novice: The Black Magician Trilogy
“How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I’d grow old with that we won’t have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?”
Source: A Second Chance
“How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?”
“How am I impacting myself? How am I impacting others? How am I being my best self every time I step on the field? What’s the story we want to tell? How are we going to write that story?”
“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?”
“How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.”
“How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, "Maybe it'll come with age," I want to say, 'I wouldn't count on it.”
Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“How am I supposed to accept that I can’t talk to you anymore?”
Source: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
“How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?”
Source: That Weekend
“How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!”
“How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?”
Source: The Truth About Emily
“How am I supposed to feed you?” Drake demanded.
“Darkness say to coyote: don’t kill human. Did not say don’t eat dead human.”
Drake laughed with a certain delight. This Pack Leader was definitely a smarter animal than the original one.”
Source: Fear
“How am I supposed to forget that holding him feels like touching love itself?”
“How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.”
Source: Shutter Island
“How am I supposed to live the single life vicariously if I don't get any details?
I shook my head and shrugged mournfully.
"I'm doing my part. I tell you everything."
"And don't think I don't appreciate it," she said, tearing up slightly. We gave each other a drunken hug.”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?”
Source: The Redemption of Callie and Kayden
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”
Source: Wizards at War
“How am I to become a legend, my dear? I’ve tried love, but that hides you in the bosom of another and I am always springing forth from it like the lotus—the ecstasy of always bursting forth! (but one must not be distracted by it!) or like a hyacinth, “to keep the filth of life away,” yes, there, even in the heart, where the filth is pumped in and courses and slanders and pollutes and determines. I will my will, though I may become famous for a mysterious vacancy in that department, that greenhouse.”
Source: Meditations in an Emergency
“How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?”
“How amaze it is, that every little things in your life moving, growing, or even falling. They are all lovely complexities. Human process.”
“How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods”
“How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.”
“How an Englishman came to be ‘Cooking up a Country’ in Italy
It was a book that got me into this mess. Almost twenty years ago after reading Annie Hawes excellent, Extra Virgin, I jumped on a flight intent on experiencing Liguria for myself. What I discovered here has had me coming back for holidays ever since. Until two years ago, that is, when I bowed to the inevitable British compulsion to own property.”
“How an individual or couple spends income is a better measure of well-being than the actual level of income at any point in time, according to research by Michael D. Hurd and Susan Rohwedder.”
Source: 12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future
“How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.”
“How and where authors connect with their readers will affect how and when readers buy.”
“How and why many of us blindly repeat words, idioms, and phrases passed down to us like shabby clothes from our parents or ancestors, without even pondering the exact meaning of what we say.”
“HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what it's like to fill a new prescription for glasses and suddenly see the world again, with a mixture of disappointment and gratitude ... Also, they don't dream. For this reason, they have one less thing to talk about. In a backward way, when they wake up they feel as if there is something they are forgetting to tell each other. There is disagreement among the angels as to whether this is a result of something vestigial, or whether it is the result of the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep. In general, they fall into these two camps on the subject of dreams. Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.”
Source: The History of Love
“How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided”
“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.”
“How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?”
Source: The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House
“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period End of chapter.'
If I had to do that sort of thing I should be feeling all the time that the girl was saying to herself as she took it down, 'Well comma this beats me period How comma with homes for the feebleminded touting for custom on every side comma has a man like this succeeded in remaining at large mark of interrogation.”
“How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.”
“How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.”
“How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.”
“How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.”
“How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?”
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.”
“How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“How apart she felt, how apart she had felt for years, and she wished it was a feeling she could get used to. But it wasn’t. One by one, everyone else her age had married and had children, yet for her, the years of her twenties had slipped away, waving at her like hands from a leaving train. As they all moved on, she was left standing on the platform, absolutely alone, surrounded only by the smoke that stung her eyes and throat.
It was no different now.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“How apostles are received is a key measuring stick as to how the Lord will release blessings or judgments on a territory. Apostles also have authority over the demonic rulers of a region. They have the ability to demonstrate supernatural power that draws a whole region to our life-giving God.”
“How apparent is it that I want to put Grom into a headlock until he goes to sleep, and yell at Mom for not loving Dad or caring that he's dead?”
Source: Of Triton