H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?”
“How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.”
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time, until your loved ones give you poison and sell you to anatomy, and even then you will die with a hole inside you, and you will wail and curse at a life ill-lived. But you won’t grow. You can come out, and we will end it, cleanly, or you can die in there, of hunger and of fear. And when you are dead your circle will mean nothing, and we will tear out your heart and take your soul for a keepsake”
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.”
“How can you be happy when you are sad?
Good Question there.
Happiness and sadness are not opposite states.
Your intrinsic, natural, state is happiness. Sadness interferes with your being happy when you get what you don’t want or when you don’t get what you want. A break-up, a pink slip, a health challenge, death of a loved one – all these, and more, will naturally make you sad. To feel sad when sadness arises in you is neither abnormal nor avoidable. In fact, don’t even try to escape sadness. Hold it, observe it keenly. When you understand the futility of being sad, you will let go of your sadness – on your own. Sometimes, you may need help, from a friend, a parent, or a sibling, or a therapist. But unless you understand that your feeling sad endlessly is what is ruining your happiness, you will not bounce back. Happiness is, therefore, an intensely personal choice.”
“how can you be holding me from doing what i want to do, when all i want to do is hold you?”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?”
“How can you be inspired if you do not surround yourself with the things that inspire you?”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“How can you be joyfully involved and be free from attachment? This doesn’t make sense.”
“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.”
Source: Last Apprentice 3-Book Collection: Revenge of the Witch, Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer
“How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?”
“How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.”
Source: The False Princess
“How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?”
“How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?”
“How can you be so accepting? How is it that you are not screaming with frustration?"
"I've been spending more time in prayer. I am learning that obedience to God means that you do not put your eyes on your longings, but instead, you simply place one foot ahead of the other into the space that the Lord opens. Tired, wounded, overwhelmed. It does not matter. You merely keep moving where God directs and stop focusing on what you wish you had. It's teaching me patience.”
Source: Land of Silence
“How can you be so dark?
I asked my heart
The same reason darkness haunts the night
She replied”
Source: A Warrior's Heart
“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?”
“How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I’ve been such a jerk?”
Maddy appears to think for a moment. “When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.”
Source: The Visions of David Palmer: Rising Phoenix
“How can you be so sure?" I badly want to believe him, but this is Rafa. The guy who's all action and no plan.
His smile is tired, knowing. An echo of a shared past I don't remember. "Because I'm not smart enough to give up, and you don't know how to.”
Source: Haze
“How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?”
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?”
“How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?”
“How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!”
“How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.”
“How can you believe everything is accidental when we're together and it feels like this?”
Source: Sweetbitter
“How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?”
Source: I Was Here
“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?”
“How can you break me when all I did was put you back together?”
“How can you build a relationship when you're just sending out beats? Most people will come in and play their beats, but I like to make mine on the spot.”
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.”
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.”
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.”
Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony
“How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.”
“How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?”
“How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.”
Source: The Future of Us
“How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?”
“How can you charge someone with murder without a body?”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.”
“How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?”
Source: Plastic Fantastic
“How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.”
“How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.”
“How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.”
Source: Improper behavior
“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”
“How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.”
“How can you contrive to write so even?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?”
“How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?”
Source: The Tao of Wu
“How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.”