H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?”
“How can I shut down
If you don't open up??”
Source: Pierrot & Columbine
“How can I sleep with my eyes closed when there are thousands of beautiful stars above me?”
“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?”
Source: Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
“How can I study from below, that which is above?”
“How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)”
“How can I teach my children not to lie but always speak the truth when now people are fine with "alternative facts"?”
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted with a high hand in resolving her affairs in places like Côte d'Ivoire, a name she had been given because of her export products, not her own identity.
Her name was Asia. His was Europe. Her name was silence. His was power. Her name was poverty. His was wealth. Her name was Her, but what was hers? His name was His, and he presumed everything was his, including her, and he thought be could take her without asking and without consequences. It was a very old story, though its outcome had been changing a little in recent decades. And this time around the consequences are shaking a lot of foundations, all of which clearly needed shaking.
Who would ever write a fable as obvious, as heavy-handed as the story we've been given?
...
His name was privilege, but hers was possibility. His was the same old story, but hers was a new one about the possibility of changing a story that remains unfinished, that includes all of us, that matters so much, that we will watch but also make and tell in the weeks, months, years, decades to come.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”
Source: May We Be Forgiven
“How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?”
“How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this?”
“How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? I am really happy with the club. I will be having talks with the chairman and the manager shortly, but it is looking good. Liverpool fans are crazy, they were unbelievable, and I'd like to dedicate this victory to them.”
“How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?”
“How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.”
“How can I trust that the Bible is reliable?”
“How can I turn from Africa and live?”
Source: Selected poems
“How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ...”
“How can I use what most excites, angers, or upsets me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?”
Source: Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
“How can I use what most excites me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?”
Source: Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
“How can I walk by a window full of wheels of cheese and feel nothing? I don't even know myself anymore.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert E. Howard (Illustrated)
“How can I, who have not the strength to hold my own past, hope to save the past of someone else?”
Source: Nausea
“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?”
“How can intermediate level beings see or experience this artificial life? The answer is that we already have virtual reality goggles through which we can view, in three dimensions, sporting events on the opposite side of the world. Today you can purchase equipment that enables you to watch and listen to a professional basketball game that takes place in the United States while you are in your bedroom in Japan, wearing the virtual reality goggles and headphones. Imagine the authenticity, accuracy and realism of virtual reality that a civilization a thousand years more advanced than us can produce!”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”
Source: A Monster Calls
“How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.”
Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution
“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
“How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“How can it be hard and easy at the same time?” asked Omar.
“It's like a really tall wall,” said Anja. “It might be hard to climb, but there's no flying crocodiles to fight off while you do it.”
Source: Bluescreen
“How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.”
“How can it be repeated and what for? I love and can love only that earth which I have left, stained with my blood, when, in my ingratitude, I quenched my life with a bullet in my heart. But I have never, never ceased to love that earth, and perhaps on the very night I parted from it I loved it more than ever. Is there suffering upon this new earth? On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love.”
Source: The Short Stories of Dostoevsky
“How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?”
“How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?”
Source: Where She Went
“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?”
“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?”
Source: Life's That Way
“How can it be, with eyes
Closed and words
Silent, that we can
See and understand
So easily?
Kiss me, love --this space of
Ours is everything”
Source: We Have Time
“How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?”
Source: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”
“How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?”
“How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?”
Source: The Works of Joseph Addison