H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How could we educate young people to respect life while ignoring the killing of human beings?”
Source: Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War
“How could we even be prepared to face such a harsh reality as ourselves when we see nothing in a mirror but the reflection of our disguised faces staring back at us with the many cruel intentions behind it? And perhaps it is this that is hell in itself. It just seems less demanding to submit ourselves to the oblivious demise we have crafted then to witness the ruin of our very soul.”
Source: The Proclamation of the Demon in I
“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“How could we have allowed the instinct bred within us over the centuries to draw lines and never cross them, an infinity of lines, ever-smaller lines, ever-sharper distinctions? I grieved for Didi's generation of "girls of good family," who put caste, duty and family reputation before self-indulgence.”
Source: Desirable Daughters
“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“How could we have forsaken the reading of the Holy Bible?”
“How could we have found, who we really are, without education?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“How could we have revived the soul without music?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!”
“How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“How could we not be romantic, for the God Who created us has never fallen out of love with us despite all the many ways that we have fallen out of love with Him.”
“How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.”
“How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring.”
Source: Hey, Zoey
“How could you, America? With no answer for
all I knew of country was my hurt and rage.
But home was home: I dusted off the secrets,
cleaned up the lies, nailed the creaky floors
down, set a fire, and sat with history books
I’d never opened, listened to songs I’d never
played, pulled out the old map from a dark
drawer, redrew it with more colors, less lines.
I stoked the fire, burning on until finally: Okay,
nothing’s perfect, I understood, I forgive you,
I said—and forgiveness became my country.”
Source: How to Love a Country
“How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?”
Source: Komarr
“How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.”
“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?”
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
“How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?”
“How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time?”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?”
Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel
“How could you be sad, when you can sing?”
“How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?”
“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”
Source: 1984
“How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.”
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
“How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again”
“How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale”
“How could you do that? Creseair has always come first to you."
"But now you come first.”
Source: Prodigy of Revenge
“How could you do that to me?" I repeat. I don´t have to itemize. He knows what I speak of.
Eventually N produces three answers, in this order:
1. "Because I am a complete rotter." I silently agree, but it´s a cop-out: I have maggots, therefore I am dead.
2. "I was stressed at work and unhappy and we were always fighting...and you know I was just crazy..."
I cut him off, saying, "You don´t get to be crazy. You did exactly what you chose to do."
Which is true, he did. It is what he has always done. He therefore seems slightly puzzled at the need for further diagnosis, which may explain his third response:
3. "I don´t know."
This, I feel instinctively, is the correct answer. How can I stay angry with him for being what he is? I was, after all, his wife, and I chose him. No coincidences, that´s what Freud said. None. Ever.
I wipe my eyes on my sleeve and walk toward the truck, saying to his general direction, "Fine. At least now I know: You don´t know."
I stop and turn around and fire one more question: a bullet demanding attention in the moment it enters the skin and spreads outward, an important bullet that must be acknowledged.
"What did you feel?"
After a lengthy pause, he answers. "I felt nothing."
And that, I realize too late, was not the whole truth, but was a valid part of the truth.
Oh, and welcome to the Serengeti. That too.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“How could you do this to me? How could you be so vicious?” - “Because love is the easiest way to control someone and I needed a way to control you.”
Source: Captive
“How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you.”
Source: We Can Never Leave This Place
“How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?”
“How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?”
“How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?”
Source: Program 13
“How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?”
“How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?”
“How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.”
“How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?”
“How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?”
“How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.”
Source: Matterhorn
“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.”
Source: Hard Times
“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
Source: Mercy
“How could you hate someone for breaking you? Yet, love them at the same time? The saying is right. There is a thin line between love and hate.”
Source: Love/Hate
“How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?”
Source: God Is Not A Christian
“How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?”
“How could you...? How?"
"Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead."
...He is really going through with it.
"No," She managed.
"There is no other way.”
Source: The Last Guardian
“How could you keep this from me? How could you let me fall for you?” I shouted, as I uncontrollably shoved him, repeatedly. “I meant nothing to you, did I?”
“Look at me!” he yelled, gesturing his arms as the rain cascaded off of him. “I’m standing here. What more do I have to do to prove what you mean to me?” he proclaimed, as he engulfed the space between us, steeling my breath. Intense passion radiated from him as he spoke.”