H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.”
Source: Zane's Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas
“How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...
“How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.”
“How can unity and infinity share the same space?
There is only one way, as a fractal.”
“How can we abstain from sexual immorality? Only God can give us the grace.”
“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”
“How can we achieve a state of equilibrium or balance in the body when the Earth itself rotates daily?”
“How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.”
“How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.”
“How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”
Source: Breathless Reads Sampler
“How can we, as parents, raise resilient, self-driven children who are truly prepared for a world that’s rapidly changing, when traditional schooling often prioritizes outdated facts and test scores over essential skills, character, and an entrepreneurial mindset?”
“How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?”
“How can we be a polis when 95 percent of us would rather watch aging housewives bicker on TV than express a well-formed opinion of our own?”
“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”
Source: Generation A: A Novel
“How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?”
“How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.”
“How can we be good and kind to one another?
Only if we grasp via science or spirituality that everything is innately inter-connected & intertwined with all else, and that in essence & substratum we're all one, can empathy with each other arise.
Otherwise we remain rascals.”
“How can we be happy if we don't bother learning about it?”
Source: Happiness Happens: Happiness For Those Who Have Everything Else
“How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?”
“How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?”
Source: The Firstborn
“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
“How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren`t going to back on.”
“How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?”
Source: Rembrandt's Hat
“How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.”
“How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.”
“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.”
Source: Free Will
“How can we begin to experiment outside the status quo? How can we learn to see companionship itself as both home and wealth? How can we take more of the world into our daily consideration and care for people we may never know? How can we live with joy and humor in the face of crises, without shying away or diminishing others? What if we get everyone together and get a good feeling between us? How about we work out anything and everything that lies unexpressed?”
Source: Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
“How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?”
“How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?”
Source: Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos
“How can we call anyone’s view point as being wrong? Can we tell a blind man off if he bumps into a wall? Hey, he bumped into the wall because he was blind.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?”
“How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!”
“How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?”
“How can we claim to know God but deny Him in our action?”
“How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.”
Source: Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections in Positive Psychology
“How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“How can we define NOTHING, or how can we prove that zero exists to a small child? Endless loop.”
“How can we deny the light and its reach when it chooses to expand onto shadowed pages?”
Source: The Fall And Rise Of Chimeras
“How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist.”
Source: קיצור תולדות האנושות
“How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?”
“How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?”
Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition
“How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?”
“How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.”
Source: The Path to Enlightenment
“How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to become rich? Poverty has many forms. We have to ask ourselves: 'What is my poverty?' Is it lack of money, lack of emotional stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety, lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty. That’s the place where God wants to dwell! 'How blessed are the poor,' Jesus says (Matthew 5:3). This means that our blessing is hidden in our poverty.
We are so inclined to cover up our poverty and ignore it that we often miss the opportunity to discover God, who dwells in it. Let’s dare to see our poverty as the land where our treasure is hidden.”
Source: Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
“How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?”
“How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“How can we ensure that these dead would not have died in vain?
And how can we make sure that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?
I don’t know about you, but personally, I think it's by being devoted to the same cause to which they gave their last full measure of devotion- by being dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Source: Prophet, Priest, & Pirate
“How can we escape from you, life, except through death?
Our sorrows are endless. Endure? Escape? Neither is easy.
Yes, the beauty of nature is sweet—the earth,
sea, stars, the orbit of the moon and sun.
But all else is fear and pain.
One day a bit of luck
and then we wait for inexorable Nemesis.”
“How can we ever bring ourselves to make love again, I thought, if we can speak of our love only by oblique reference to death?”
Source: Enigma Variations