H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.”
“How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?”
Source: Waiting For You
“How could such a beautiful man be insecure?”
Source: In Flight
“How could such a bitter thing become a means of pleasure? Everything on Valentine was the opposite. Work needn't be suffering, it could unite folks. A bright child like Chester might thrive and prosper, as Molly and her friends did. A mother raise her daughter with love and kindness. A beautiful soul like Caesar could be anything he wanted here, all of them could be: own a spread, be a schoolteacher, fight for colored rights. Even be a poet. In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.”
“How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.”
Source: The Hobbit
“How could such an anomalous, un-Christian practice be tolerated in the Church in the first place? It seems that leaders were not prepared to listen to the prophetic voices raised by conscientious people in the Church.”
Source: The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition
“How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?”
Source: Selected poems
“How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.”
“How could that woman [Hillary Clinton] actually be the most cheated-on woman in America? Which she is.”
“How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?”
“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
Source: The Cuckoo's Calling
“How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?”
Source: Roses in the Rainbow
“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.”
“How could the pearls of grace and wisdom he [Mike Pence] had brought to the table retain any value when they were constantly being sloshed with more and more foul-smelling slime? If anyone deserved better––aside from the American people themselves and women as a whole––it seemed to me that it might have been this man who had proven to be such a capable champion and ally.”
Source: Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
“How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”
“How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.”
“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.”
“How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?”
“How could there ever be a real moral reason for war?' Harper would ask rhetorically. 'It always comes down to someone’s greed. History is populated by the distorted tyrants and corrupt businessmen willing to trade a cup full of blood for a purse filled with gold.”
Source: The Last Librarian
“How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?”
“How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.”
Source: On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
“How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“How could they make me fall in love with a city I called home, a city where I stitched my heart and soul into, only to make me rip it all out and leave? The breeze that brought me happiness, the waves of the beach where I found peace, the people who felt more like family than my own, how could they ask me to leave it all behind? The city where I laughed, cried, grew up, and truly lived... How could they expect me to walk away, knowing it would be the last time I strolled through these familiar streets that to me felt like heaven?”
Source: To Hell With You
“How could they possibly be Japanese planes?”
“How could they receive grace if all we give them is strife?”
Source: Unity
“How could they refuse to let girls have their own Chrysalises?' I say through clenched teeth. "It would be such a help to the war!"
Yizhi's eyes darken. "What family would let their son enlist if there's a realistic possibility that he'd be killed by a girl.”
Source: Iron Widow
“How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?”
“How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet - on the other hand - what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt.”
“How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot”
“how could this act of freeing yourself
feel so stuck in my body”
Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief
“How could this be? I thought. To find the one Customs man unwilling to be bribed? I nearly wept for England.”
Source: A Woman of the Road and Sea
“How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?”
“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its operation? It is one thing to rail against the evils of politically unaccountable judges enlarging constitutional rights beyond the ideas and purposes of their adopters; another to explain why morally sustainable claims of equality be held captive to the extraordinary obstacles of Article V or subject to the partial and incomplete understandings of 1789 or 1868.”
Source: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
“How could three people who cared for one another so much cause one another so much pain?”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture?
Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through.
I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.”
Source: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
“How could Triple H EVER be mad, how could he EVER have a bad day? How would you like to be married to her?! Wake up in a wonderful mood every morning. I mean, look at that!”
“How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?”
Source: Flight Behavior
“How could two people know each other so intimately without have told the old stories. You get to an age where the stories don’t matter anymore, and the stories once told so passionately become a tide that never quite reaches the point of being said. And there is no such thing as fate, but there are no accidents either.”
Source: Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“How could two such different worlds co-exist, how could they communicate?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.”
“How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them.”
“How could we be holy, if we do not read the Holy Book?”
“How could we be miserable, when there is music?”
“How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing behind our hands?”
Source: American Mermaid
“How could we be sorrow, if there is a song?”
“How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.”