H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can the silence be so deafening?”
“How can the soul that is born for laughter be torn by grief? In its deep, there is a place where music eternally plays, where art is born in silence, and a dance goes on in ecstasy. One must seek that depth, which remains untorn.”
“How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.”
“How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, ‘You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.’ That way you will sit on God’s side.”
“How can the truth make anything worse?”
Source: The Heir
“How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.”
“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“How can the world find global solutions to systemic challenges like pandemics, climate mitigation and AI regulation? Regional approaches are inadequate for holistic issues.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?”
Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?”
“How can there be a sanctity of marriage when friends fail to see the boundaries?”
“How can there be an endpoint to love and loss? Do we even want there to be? The price of loving so deeply is feeling so deeply – but it’s also a gift, the gift of being alive.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?”
Source: Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda
“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.”
“How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?”
“How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.”
“How can there be no such word as can't? Ramona wondered. Mrs. Rudge had just said can't. If there was so such word as can't then Mrs. Rudge could not have said there was no such word as can't. Therefore, what Mrs. Rudge said could not be true.”
Source: Ramona and Her Mother
“How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?”
“How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?”
Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.”
“How can there be self-help groups?”
“How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?”
“How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?”
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta”
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
“How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?”
“How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?”
“How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?
But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long.”
“How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.”
“How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.”
“How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“How can they love me ,if I can't even love myself?”
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
Source: An Anthology
“How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?”
Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“How can this be real?” I whispered. “I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?”
“Try and stop me.”
Source: Awoken
“How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)”
“How can this come about?" Mary asked. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the angel answered, "and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow." And now you are the one who puts the question: "How can bread become Christ and wine His Blood?" I answer: "The power of the Holy Spirit will be at work to give us a marvel which surpasses understanding.”
“How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.”
Source: Journey of the North Star
“How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.”
“How can this woman have spent half her life in Nostraza and turn out like that? It should have broken her. It should have left her as a shell. But somehow, she survived both that and Atlas’s Trials and came out on the other end in a blazing ball of confident fire that threatens to burn me up every time she walks into the room.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?”
“How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?”
Source: The Power of Myth
“How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.”
“How can those who incinerate with jealousy at the sight of someone else's external glitter not realize that not everything that shines is a diamond? Only the person wearing new shoes can truly experience the pain; for others, captivating is the allure of new shoes.”
Source: एकादेशमा [Ekadeshma]
“How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”
“How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.”
“How can time be so wrong for love to come along? Catch me I'm falling for you.”
“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”