H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.”
“How can someone look back at a prison and call it home?”
Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
“How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?”
“How can someone so evil—so cruel—possibly be that attractive?”
Source: Heirs of Secrets
“How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?”
“How can someone vouch for your credit worthiness when you don't borrow;not borrowing is one of the unhealthiest habit one can develop , borrowing is healthy & rewarding is it when you borrow to invest:leveraging is part of every yearning investors forte”
“How can someone who doesn’t even know what their love language is be worthy of your heart and soul?”
“How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?”
“How can someone who's stood by you your whole life – who helped you empty the contents of the kitchen bin onto the floor when you were seventeen because you accidentally threw away a piece of hash the size of a cocoa nib, or who accompanied you, when she was eighty years old, to the Southbank Cinema on Mother's Day to watch hardcore gay and lesbian sex films because no one else would go with you (ditto a Sparks concert at the Royal Festival Hall) – how can that person, who you've been through so much with and who is now lying in front of you with snow-white hair, pale-grey eyes, soft pink skin and worry lines, not be beautiful?”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?”
“How can something as simple as a look make me feel so much?”
Source: Stronger Than You Know
“How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?”
Source: Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“How can something so wrong feel so right?”
Source: Forbidden
“How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?' I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don't know what I feel aside from overwhelming mortification?”
Source: Love and Other Foreign Words
“How can sport not be politicized when players are allowed to be sold and bought like commodities?!”
“How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?”
“How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?”
“How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.”
“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”
“How can't you see it? The light only shines because the darkness glows. It's beautiful...”
“How can talking go wrong? How can being truthful go wrong?”
Source: Love Your Life
“How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?”
Source: The Major Works
“How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?”
“How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?”
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result in different winners!”
“How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?”
Source: Champion
“How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?”
“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”
Source: Stolen Apples
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?”
“How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.”
“How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.”
Source: Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
“How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?”
“How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?”
Source: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
“How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?”
“How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?”
“How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”
Source: A Passage to India
“How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?”
Source: Peony in Love
“How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?”
Source: The Beast and Me
“How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”
“How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?”
Source: Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run
“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?”
Source: Cannery Row
“How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.”
“How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?”
“How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?”
“How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?”
“How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.”