H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?”
Source: Commencement
“How could a person hurt what they loved most? The answer was simple yet painful: it happened not in an instant but like sand trickling down an hourglass.”
Source: To the Boys Who Wear Pink
“How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.”
“How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?”
Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.”
“How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?”
Source: Democracy in America
“How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.”
“How could a tale so big be unfolding in some corner of the universe?”
Source: Ben Archer and the Alien Skill
“how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“How could an actor become president?”
“How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.”
“How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)”
“How could an ice-storm be so warm?”
Source: Snowed In: A Hydra Productions Online Holiday Collection
“How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”
Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
“How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.”
“How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?”
“How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.”
“How could any woman endure a life of misery with such a cheap promise of appreciation after her death?”
Source: Escape
“How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.”
Source: White Oleander
“How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!”
“How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“How could anyone, even someone burdened with cares and woes, trudge along when something as wondrous as a library waited at the end of the pathway?”
Source: The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
“How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.”
“How could anyone resist June? She’s perfect in too many ways”
Source: Prodigy
“How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?”
Source: Endymion
“How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?”
“How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?”
Source: Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations
“How could be be sanctified? By avoiding sexual immorality.”
“How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?”
“How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the Prophet to themselves, knowing they were going to kill innocent people? They saw the other passengers on the plane. They could see the woman with her little daughter. They saw people making phone calls to their wives or their husbands. They knew who they were killing.”
“How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?”
“Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations,” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.”
“How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.”
“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.”
“How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?”
“How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?”
Source: Birthday letters
“How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you're not in heaven right here on earth when you're alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you'll be in heaven and "presto!" all at once you're not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you'll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn't stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day?”
“How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?”
“how could he explain what happened? 'hey, honey, i'm an alien and apparently i just doused you with some radioactive loving! wanna catch a movie?' Yeah, not cool.”
Source: Shadows
“How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”
“How could he forget her instructions days ago to deposit all her art supplies in the ballroom? Probably because that brain-muddling embrace outside the gallery scrambled clear thinking. He recalled the distraction of burying his face in the softness of her hair. Her presence seeped into him the same way her simple lemongrass scent invaded his senses. Right now, breathing heavily from exertion, he'd swear her scent surrounded him.”
Source: Meet the Earl at Midnight
“How could he go from legally engaged to sexually enraged in the blink of an eye ?”
Source: At the Rancher's Pleasure
“How could he hate the Jews and yet feel sick when they were attacked? Louis hated peasants, too, apparently, and yet he had no problem sitting beside Jeanne - hoisting her in the air and dancing even. Jacob tried to turn this over in his head, around and around, like the cartwheels beneath him. But after a while, he gave up. People were too strange to understand, he decided. They were like life. And also that cheese. Too many things at once.”
Source: The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
“How could he have abandoned—no, shoved away the most important person in the world to him? The one person in the world to whom he, in turn, was also most important?
God, he was a monster.”
Source: Homecoming
“How could he have been so foolish to try this experiment without taking better precautions?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“How could he mean so much to me in such a short time?”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”
Source: Fathoms of Forgiveness
“How could he possibly say the words?”
Source: THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER