H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How appropriate," he said, and chuckled with delight. "The only commentary I can make is that warrior-travelers roll with the punches. They go wherever the impulse may take them. The power of warrior-travelers is to be alert, to get maximum effect from minimal impulse. And above all, their power lies in not interfering. Events have a force, a gravity of their own, and travelers are just travelers. Everything around them is for their eyes alone. In this fashion, travelers construct the meaning of every situation, without ever asking how it happened this way or that way.”
Source: The Active Side of Infinity
“How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!”
Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology
“How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?”
“How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.”
“How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”
Source: Hollywood
“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.”
Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.”
“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?”
“How are students to reconcile the incarnational and fleshly reality of Christ, if they cannot embrace their own flesh?”
Source: Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play
“How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.”
“How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.”
“How are the white folks treating you?" He looked at me and sneered.
"This is Alabama, son," he said, though he seemed younger than I. "How do you think they're treating us?”
Source: South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir
“How are these people deserving huge payouts for losing weight when they should have done it without the camera or without a team helping them? Then, six months later you go back and find out where they are, and they're in a worse state than they were in before they joined the f - ing show. Then they blame the producer.”
“How are they defensively, attacking-wise?”
“How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?”
“How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“HOW ARE TIBETAN BUDDHIST MANIPULATED WITHIN USA /NATO POLITICAL INTEREST THROUGH OBVIOUS JEWSS JAWSS BLACK MAGIC”
“How are we any different?
You and I are the same.
How are we any different?
We both share the same name.
Is that anyway to live with those who we supposed to love?
Is that anyway to live by building walls between you and me?”
Source: Flowers for the Dead
“How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he stopped. "Wow." "What?" she asked, panic in her voice. "Nothing," he said too quickly. "What?" she asked again. "Well...it's just that...your boobs look even bigger on TV." Kat took that opportunity to turn and glare at the nearest security camera. In his bathroom stall thirty feet away, Simon nearly fell off the toilet.”
“how are we ever going to be free if we only believe the things they tell us are possible”
Source: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“How are we going to get out of here?"
"Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan."
"Do we have the right plan?"
"Not yet."
"Do we have any plan?"
"Not yet.”
Source: Death Bringer
“How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!”
“How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part?”
“How are we going to know what sounds are important before we've even heard those sounds? It's an absurd question. The only thing we can say is that we're going to base it on our past experience. In other words, modern listening doesn't inform us of anything new. It simply keeps us in the past.”
“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”
“How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.”
“How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?”
“How are we making sure that people who are making the rules or law or who are making decisions about our lives are not being compromised. They are making those decision because they are being blackmail , extorted , paid or coerced. They are not making it because they have our best interest at heart.”
“How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” Jamie hissed through his teeth. “If someone’s in there, they probably heard that.”
Source: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
“How are we supposed to live without a meteor bearing down on us? How are we supposed to find the best parts of humanity without a brutal regime at the door? How are we supposed to tell the people we love that we love them if we're not five minutes from being destroyed?
That's the challenge of being alive.”
Source: Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“How are we supposed to meet and fall in "love," if I am so fucking busy and you don't exist?”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”
Source: Collected essays
“How are we to account for the vast interest to be found in Arthurian literature today, an interest embracing both the academic and the common person?
The answer may lie in the possibility that there is more of interest to the human being than his own circumscribed range of personal experience and the limited collective experience of the society in which he finds himself. Man has a sense of wonder and he seeks to look beyond the confines of the everyday. Marvel-filled literature enables him to do this and provides him with the stimulus which his imagination craves.”
Source: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
“How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.”
Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
“How are we to become people who bring into public life the values we treasure in our interpersonal relationships?”
“How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.”
“How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.”
“How are we to write
The Russian novel in America
As long as life goes so unterribly?”
Source: Selected poems
“How are ya gonna make it?” Becker asked.
“Seems like I’ve heard that question all my life.”
“Well, I don’t know about you but I’m going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. The first car I own I’m going to take it completely apart! Then I’m going to put it back together again! I want to know about things, what makes them work! I’d like to be a correspondent in Washington, D.C. I’d like to be where big things are happening.”
“Washington’s crap, Becker.”
“And women? Marriage? Children?”
“Crap.”
“Yeah? Well, what do you want?”
“To hide.”
“You poor fuck. You need another beer.”
“All right.”
The beer arrived.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?”
“How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The last time I checked the statistics...I think they indicated that only four percent of the adults in this country have bought a book within the past year. That's dangerous. It's extremely important that we keep ourselves in the top five or six percent.
In one of the Monthly Letters from the Royal Bank of Canada it was pointed out that reading good books is not something to be indulged in as a luxury. It is a necessity for anyone who intends to give his life and work a touch of quality. The most real wealth is not what we put into our piggy banks but what we develop in our heads. Books instruct us without anger, threats and harsh discipline. They do not sneer at our ignorance or grumble at our mistakes. They ask only that we spend some time in the company of greatness so that we may absorb some of its attributes.
You do not read a book for the book's sake, but for your own.
You may read because in your high-pressure life, studded with problems and emergencies, you need periods of relief and yet recognize that peace of mind does not mean numbness of mind.
You may read because you never had an opportunity to go to college, and books give you a chance to get something you missed. You may read because your job is routine, and books give you a feeling of depth in life.
You may read because you did go to college.
You may read because you see social, economic and philosophical problems which need solution, and you believe that the best thinking of all past ages may be useful in your age, too.
You may read because you are tired of the shallowness of contemporary life, bored by the current conversational commonplaces, and wearied of shop talk and gossip about people.
Whatever your dominant personal reason, you will find that reading gives knowledge, creative power, satisfaction and relaxation. It cultivates your mind by calling its faculties into exercise.
Books are a source of pleasure - the purest and the most lasting. They enhance your sensation of the interestingness of life. Reading them is not a violent pleasure like the gross enjoyment of an uncultivated mind, but a subtle delight.
Reading dispels prejudices which hem our minds within narrow spaces. One of the things that will surprise you as you read good books from all over the world and from all times of man is that human nature is much the same today as it has been ever since writing began to tell us about it.
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both.”
“How are you? Did you ever go to Brazil?
What do you eat in a day? Are you off the pills?
Did you find love? Did you cut your hair?
Do you watch the news or do you still not care?
Did you ever finish that book you told me about?
I read it every Valentine’s.
Do you think of me when you tour the South?
I wanna know what your days are like.
A straight A student like you— I heard you left school.
Goddamn, I wish I knew. I’ll always be a guessing fool.
But I don’t worry, that’s the easy thing about loving a smart girl
She’ll make the right decisions whether or not you’re in her world.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“How are you doing?” he asks and I grimace. “Okay, okay,” he’s talking quickly now. “The boys and I had a discussion and then we voted, and as a majority we think that you should look at this.”
“What is it?” I ask cautiously, looking at the iPad he’s proffering. “It’s not porn again is it, because I told Bram that it doesn’t help with all of life’s problems, but he won’t fucking listen.”
Source: Trust Me
“How are you feeling?"
I leaned away from him. "Gross."
Aiden frowned. "Gross?"
"I haven't brushed my teeth or washed my face in days. Don't come near me."
He laughed. "Alex, come on."
"Seriously, I'm gross." I put my hand over my mouth.
Ignoring my protests, he leaned over and brushed my string hair back. "You're as beautiful as always, Alex."
I stared at him. He must not get out much.”
Source: Deity
“How are you feeling?"
"Like I fell out a burning building onto pavement, you?" I grumbled.
"Like I was pushed out of a burning building by a maniac," she retorted, a small smile playing across her face.”
Source: Grave Beginnings
“How are you feeling? What problems are you facing? How can I help you solve those problems? That’s the kind of conversation that helps married couples stay in love with each other. Or it leads people into affairs when it’s done outside of marriage and with someone of the opposite sex. It’s intimate conversation.”
Source: His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
“How are you feeling?" "Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater." -Clary & Simon, pg.297-”
“How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on a maze of phrases and paragraphs cemented with your ability to 'knit' your story? Maybe, 'how' is more relevant to provide for your readers a consistent path to build a story from the beginning to the end than 'what' and 'why'. Of course, you are not going to dismiss them. These ones – 'what' and 'why' –, they are pretty damn good too.”