H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a simple matter. It's the kind of dialectical inquiry that's impossible to present in the world of Twitter feeds and newspapers where stories are shorter and shorter and more simplistic.”
“How can a deep-seated distrust of all elites and institutions be squared with unwavering admiration for one leader and party? This is why populists ultimately depend on the mystical notion that the strongman embodies the people. When trust in bureaucratic institutions like election boards, courts, and newspapers is particularly low, an enhanced reliance on mythology is the only way to preserve order.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.”
“how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”
“How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.”
Source: Ten Days in a Mad-House
“How can a forgiving god, the god who believes in the possibility of salvation for all, cast out certain angels as demons. It did not compute. He asked, “if we can be forgiven, why can't we forgive the demonic forces? They fell because they disobeyed God, but we are doing that constantly, right? Is there no way for them to come out of the hell fire?” In asking forgiveness for demons, he suddenly saw himself ostracized. In a way, Josh began to relate to these fallen angels— these ultimate outcasts.”
“How can a full grown man carry bomb and kill many innocent people including himself? He was promised life after death. Many Virgins, no sickness. No pain.
Because he hates his life on earth here. Sad no?
No man is really looking for religion, we're all looking for a better life here and beyond.
WHAT AM I DOING FOR TO GAIN THIS LIFE ETERNAL?
IT WAS GIVEN ME FREELY BY GRACE
BUT WHAT AM I DOING?
HOW FAR CAN I GO?”
“How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?”
“How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.”
Source: Honor's Reward: How to Attract God's Favor and Blessing
“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.”
“How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?”
“How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.”
“How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?”
“How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“How can a human being be illegal?”
“how can a little thing be so annoying?”
“How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!”
“How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?”
Source: SHOGUN
“How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?”
“How can a man dying of thirst ignore the glass of water flaunted right in front of him?”
Source: Four of a Kind
“How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.”
“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”
Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“How can a man know what being a female feels like, when he's not female? The answer is - he can't. He can only have an idea based on the way he perceives the opposite sex, and since every man has his own ideas, this makes the definition of 'woman' illusive. What's more, given that men have traditionally viewed women as weak, submissive and empty headed sex objects who wear dresses, makeup and have long hair, men who claim to be women often emulate feminine gender stereotypes in order to substantiate their claim to womanhood.”
“How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?”
“How can a man make me so hot from a single look? It defies explanation”
Source: Desperate Measures
“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.”
Source: Adam Bede
“How can a man understand and appreciate the time of peace when he has never been in the trenches of life.”
“How can a man value any other thing than his own existence?”
“How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.”
“How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.”
“How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.”
“How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?”
“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!”
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?”
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”
“How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?”
“How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.”
Source: Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition
“How can a person feel good for making someone else feel bad? I do not understand.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“How can a person feel they are trusted if they are required to disassociate with others to earn the trust of another?”
“How can a person live without love?”
“How can a president not be an actor?”
“How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.”
Source: A River Runs Through It
“How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.”
“How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?”
Source: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
“How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?”