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 reason which hates God be called sound?”
“How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy?”
Source: Three: The Way of Zen/Nature, Man and Woman/Psychotherapy East and West
“How can a rose which has never been watered be blamed for wilting?”
Source: Songs of the Reed
“How can a sane man go against the LORD? whose gentleness is described like this, “I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them” (Hosea 11: 4, ESV). Tragically, hard-hearted, close-eared, blind-eyed, dumb-mouthed, stiff-necked people are still there acting ‘smart,’ not knowing that their end is near.”
“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.”
Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”
“How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?”
“How can a sun set when man has invited darkness into his world of greed and ego?”
“How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?”
“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and change brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate- your brain- that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.”
Source: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
“How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.”
“How can a warrior fight without his weapon?”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
“How can a woman be Law-Struck for real unless she remains
Law-Struck Still.”
Source: Law Struck Still
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“How can a you hit and think at the same time?”
“How can a young man like to wear a beard?”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.”
“How can all these people be living, how can everything be carrying on as usual, if Susie is dead?”
Source: Just Last Night
“How can an arrangement of carbon molecules try to figure out the universe as a whole?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?”
“How can an innocent child effortlessly carry such burdens on his shoulders? It’s almost like he’s having a chat with the ancient sages about universal truths. I’ll go on record that he’ll be an incredible sculptor if that’s what he wants to be. Creative types with that kind of vision see their spirits with crystal clearness,” offered Starla.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.”
“How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.”
“How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised? Unable to change the fact of femaleness, she strives to make herself over, to become someone worthy of love.”
Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love
“How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our culture’s full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise products to make us believe that we will be more beautiful, more healthy, or live longer by consuming their products. We are seduced by lovers who feed their porn addictions when we’re asleep. We’re taught to believe that if we work hard and take risks, that we can achieve our dreams, yet youth unemployment is the highest it’s been in decades. Fairytales tell us that true love exists, but half of all marriages end in divorce.”
Source: See What Flowers
“How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.”
“How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.”
“How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit”
“How can anybody be okay, when some pompous, puffed-up, maladjusted, addlepated, blowhards keep impeding efforts of equality and assimilation, as if it's not 2022 AD, but 2022 BC!”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“How can anybody be okay, when some pompous, puffed-up, maladjusted, addlepated, blowhards keep impeding efforts of equality and assimilation, as if it's not past 2020 AD, but 2020 BC!”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.”
“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?”
“How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”
“How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?”
“How can anyone be against love?”
Source: By any means necessary
“How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.”
“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”
“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”
“How can anyone call this angel a monster? How can anyone see this angel as a mistake? So young and alive, her soul is less than a day old, her body was made from scratch, but her blood holds billions of years of history… history passed down through her ancestors, history that she herself will soon tell future generations...
And yet, new history begins with her.”
“How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?”
Source: Silver Linings
“How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”
Source: Music is my mistress
“How can anyone go up against a gun with nothing but an empty fist?”
Source: Human Acts
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
“How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?”
Source: Black Sheep
“How can anyone learn when they have no roof over their head, no food in their stomach or are worried about violence or other abuse? In these situations, learning becomes superfluous as survival instinct kicks in. We need to help with these pressing issues before we can hope to fully enagage learners.”
“How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.”
“How can anyone love a criminal? A Killer? Me?”