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 write if you can't cry?”
Source: The Lardners: my family remembered
“How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?”
Source: Twice Upon a Time #1: Rapunzel, the One With All the Hair
“How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?”
“How can your life without listen to music?”
“How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?”
“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations
“How casually we betray our creatures.”
Source: Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
“How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.”
Source: Sight-readings: American Fictions
“How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.”
“How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfet raigns.”
Source: Comus
“How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb”
“How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns”
Source: Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales
“How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door.” Ursula sighed dramatically. “What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven’t eaten any of your children.”
-Ursula”
Source: Ariel's Demise
“How children grow up to [be] is largely up to [conducts] within and inbetween each hierarchical structure, and parents [were] children too.
Propagation.”
“How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“How children treat their mother reflects on the father, and how they treat their father reflects on the mother. Don’t distort the truth to tarnish your spouse in your children’s eyes.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”
“How circumscribed is woman's destiny!”
Source: Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller, Translated, with Introductory Remarks, by Anna Swanwick
“How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.”
“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.”
Source: The Subterraneans
“How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”
Source: Mysteries of Motion: A Novel
“How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus were so surprised they almost dropped the lamp. It was Stephano, or, if you prefer, it was Count Olaf. It was the bad guy.”
Source: The Reptile Room
“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”
“How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.”
“How close, Frost?"
"Real close, boss. I swear on my life."
Joker slowly looked up, eyes glistening with black hope. The fire in his madness was still burning.
"If you're going to swear, swear on something that matters.”
Source: Suicide Squad: The Official Movie Novelization
“How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.”
Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel
“How close to the moon does the tooth fairy soar
with her arms so full she can hold no more?
Could the tiny bright stars that hang in the sky
be the teeth that fell down as she flew by?”
Source: What Does the Tooth Fairy Do with Our Teeth?
“How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?”
“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”
Source: Gone with the wind
“How closely you walk in relationship with the King determines how vast your authority is felt in the spirit realm. For some, it's ten feet; for some 30 or 100 feet, and for others, it's whole cities!”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“How cold it becomes when a soul on fire is doused.”
“How cold the night! Yet, the snow glistened. In her mind's eye, in a state of semi-consciousness, Stella saw a dreamcatcher, quivering on the wind.”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?”
“How come abbreviated is such a long word?”
“How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?”
“How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.”
Source: The Martian
“How come,’ Big Angel said, ‘we never kissed?’
‘Kissed?’
‘Don’t families kiss?’
‘Like, brothers? Kissing?’
‘Why not?’
They pondered the new possibility.”
Source: The House of Broken Angels
“How come different agegroups grow up in almost completely different worlds?”
“How come dog and dog owner are so alike?”
“How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.”
“How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?”
“How come everybody cheers when chicks flash their T&A, but when I pull out my D&Bs, i'm a registered sex offender.”
“How come everybody run off from Sweet Home can't stop talking about it? Look like if it was so sweet you would have stayed."
"Girl who you talking to?"
Paul D laughed. "True, true. She's right, Sethe. It wasn't sweet and it sure wasn't home." He shook his head.
"But it's where we were," said Sethe. "All together. Comes back whether we want it to or not.”
Source: Beloved