H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'”
“How can one fall in love? For me, love can only be uplifting...”
“How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?”
Source: Mornings in Jenin
“How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) gives the awareness of the Self; it will happen when He bestows God’s grace upon you.”
“How can one have been so blind to things as bright as the day?
How can one have kept on waiting,
for the dawn of a sun that won't ever rise?!”
Source: Not Just Yet. Egypt 2011: News - Incidents - Causes
“How can one identify the true owner of a cyber risk?
When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible. This is an undisputed fact.
To the best of my knowledge, organizations often rely on frameworks such as RACI matrices (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) to formally assign ownership.
From another perspective, however, the “true owner” of a cyber threat is its creator. And here is where the truth may reside.
Whether it is hackers, insiders, corporate culture, a lack of CISO expertise, disinformation, or perhaps the very silos you have built. And wait. What about your CIO, your CEO, your Board? Think of them as the first line of cyber threats.
I can. I am a scientist, a researcher. I search for what I cannot even imagine at first. Then - it is up to you to decide where to look.”
“How can one kill a terrorist, yet turn a blind eye to genocide in the name of readjustment?”
“How can one know anything at all about people?”
“How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.”
Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga
“How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.”
“How can one let go of dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') whilst residing in dehadhyas? For that, go to a Gnani (a Self-realized being), the One who has become a tarantaaranhar (One who has become liberated and can liberate others). The dehadhyas cannot go away through dehadhyas.”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.”
“How can one live without hope and longing?”
“How can one love the light and live in darkness?”
“How can one make the best of one’s life? By converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought.”
“How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?”
“How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?”
“How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?”
Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories
“How can one repay the artists who have given everything in their art? The ones whose words or paintings touch your soul and dance in your heart.The ones who care little about the money but in healing and making the world a better place. I suppose the only way to repay them is to follow your own path and to give all of yourself to your art, completely.”
“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”
“How can one respond to a question that hasn't been asked?
The one who showed up was not the one who was summoned.
The one summoned remains hopeful and still aspires to be chosen.
Even the chosen one appears uncertain of where to take their place.
How can one reign if they lack the power to decide who ascends the throne?
Power does not belong to anyone, even if it is given or inherited or stolen.
Why should you trust the advice of someone who is jealous of you?”
“How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.”
Source: The Human Stain: A Novel
“How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?”
Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka
“How can one tell if a being has free will? If one encounters an alien, how can one tell if it is just a robot or it has a mind of its own? The behavior of a robot would be completely determined, unlike that of a being with free will. Thus one could in principle detect a robot as a being whose actions can be predicted. As we said in Chapter 2, this may be impossibly difficult if the being is large and complex. We cannot even solve exactly the equations for three or more particles interacting with each other. Since an alien the size of a human would contain about a thousand trillion trillion particles even if the alien were a robot, it would be impossible to solve the equations and predict what it would do. We would therefore have to say that any complex being has free will—not as a fundamental feature, but as an effective theory, an admission of our inability to do the calculations that would enable us to predict its actions.”
Source: The Grand Design
“How can one who has been abandoned—truly, no one left in sight—be less alone?”
Source: In Limbo
“How can one who has been abandoned—truly, no one left in sight—be less alone?
Before, his answer would have been 'books,' but now he can’t bring himself to believe it. It was a taradiddle wrapped up in weltschmerz, just some defense mechanism to feel better about being an unpopular youth, about being as lonely as he was.”
Source: In Limbo
“How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?”
“How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?”
“How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?”
Source: America's Real War
“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourselves as acceptable human beings. what we've been taught, thats everything. We didn't shape our own minds, so how can our words really be our own?”
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?”
Source: Tales from Earthsea
“How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?”
“How can people justify to fool, harm, and hurt someone, who entirely innocent, and has done no incorrect things; it is inquisitive that how such offenders satisfy their conscience with such kinds of wrong deeds?”
“How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.”
“How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.”
“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?”
“How can quantum mechanics and general relativity be reconciled? By re-casting both in terms of holography. The final scientific theory of everything will be mathematical holography, with mental nonlocality at its core. If the whole science community adopts a holographic paradigm rather than a materialist paradigm, a final theory will be available within ten years.”
Source: Richard Dawkins: The Pope of Unreason
“How can religion be separated from politics when divorced people married in church have to go to court after a breakup?”
“How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?”
“How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?”
Source: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
“How can secret rooms, rooms that have disappeared, become abodes for an unforgettable past?”
Source: The Poetics of Space
“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
Source: Bird Box
“How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?”
Source: Pygmalion and Related Readings
“How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.”
“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”
Source: Less
“How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?
The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of sexist male protagonists. Which means the yardstick for "authenticity" in such novels almost always ends up being "how much do the women suffer", instead of - as might also be the case - "how sexist are the heroes".
And this bugs me; because if authors can stretch their imaginations far enough to envisage the presence of modern-minded men in the fake Middle Ages, then why can't they stretch them that little bit further to put in modern-minded women, or modern-minded social values? It strikes me as being extremely convenient that the one universally permitted exception to this species of "authenticity" is one that makes the male heroes look noble while still mandating that the women be downtrodden and in need of rescuing.
-Comment at Staffer's Book Review 4/18/2012 to "Michael J. Sullivan on Character Agency”
“How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?”
“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
“How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.”