H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.”
“How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.”
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“How dare a scripture tell someone that the person is born sinful and requires a messiah to save him or her! Human is the savior to human. There is nothing else.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].”
“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”
Source: The Old South:
“How dare he interrupt my special time with food?”
Source: Bye Forever, I Guess
“How dare he look so freaking smug like he’d just ticked an item off a sex list? Going down on Matilda. Check.”
Source: Playing by Her Rules
“How dare Henry come into Alex's house looking like the goddamn James Bond offspring that he is, drink red wine with the prime minister, and act like he didn't slip Alex the tongue and ghost him for a month.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.
Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?”
Source: A Dry White Season
“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”
Source: God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll
“How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take.”
Source: Twisted Obsession
“How dare she steal something from me that wasn’t hers to take? How dare she swallow my husband whole while I was still trying to breathe him in? How dare she break my heart and not even care about the shards of brokenness piercing through my soul?”
Source: Disgrace
“How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?”
Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle
“How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .”
“How dare the society calls itself civilized, while hailing women first as sexual objects, then as everything else! How dare a man foster the primitive courage to hit on every woman he encounters, as if she has been waiting her whole life to be hit on – as if to be hit on, is the purpose of her existence! Rise, my brothers, and see women as persons, and not as objects of sexual gratification. And if you are single, and truly would like to be with a woman you like, then be a gentleman and ask her out with respect, instead of treating her as an object to possess.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.”
“How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!”
“How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.”
“How dare they be so arrogant and presume only their medical methods are fit for public consumption, and not those of a more naturalistic and naturopathic approach?”
“How dare they speak so unkindly of stories? Stories never did anything to them! Stories are only here to love you and look after you and show you a good time… Stories don’t even ask anything in return but not to have grape juice spilled on them, and, every once in a while, to be thought of fondly, years and years after you shut their covers.”
Source: Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
“How dare those men judge her? They’d created her. A woman can’t sell her body without clients to buy it.”
Source: The Red
“How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.”
“How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in the back of their Bible, and put the date and if the devil ever comes to them, they need to show him that. That is Roman superstition, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. You see, we've turned the gospel into a flu-shot.”
“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!”
“How dare you! Cats aren’t selfish, only so self-aware we have little use for the pettiness of these human creatures. We’ve got used to being undervalued and underestimated.”
Source: Teleria
“How dare you claim to respect my choices and then deny them because you don’t agree with them? How dare you claim to respect my autonomy and then deny it because it means you don’t get to keep me?”
Source: The Sword of Kaigen
“How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!”
Source: No Secrets: Eternity series
“How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.”
“How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.”
Source: Love All the People (New Edition)
“How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost you mind?”
“How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!”
“How dare you make my life a felony.”
“How dare you make such suggestions when you have no idea what it is you're talking about. Of course you've always been this way; conceited, arrogant, rude to others around you when they don't match up to your ridiculously.." high standards...”
Source: Abhorrence and Affection: A Jane Austen inspired romance
“how dare you, peasant.
do you not know who I am?
'No, and at the moment, neither do you.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“How dare you question if I fast?
Or come between my God and me?
How claim no lust for what's forbidden,
Then veils wrap round the face that's free?
My vice is wine or rakı. I drink!
So what? It does no harm to you.
We'll face the hair-thin bride together;
Blind drunk, I'll pass, if I be true.”
“How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.”
“How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.”
“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“How dare you!" she shrieked, unaware of the silent young man standing in the shadows, staring at her. "Threatening me! You coldhearted bastard, I could have any number of men call you out for the insult."
"I doubt it," he drawled, feeling wicked enough to goad her. "I'm quite deadly in a duel, and most of your paramours know it. You're not worth dying for, my dear, as neither of us is certain you have any honor to save.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“How dare you speak to me like that?' She tried to pull away, but his strength
was too great, a conquering strength that held her fast, his hands tightly at
her waist, his eyes burning into her.
'I will speak to you as I choose!' His lips tightened at her anger. 'The bride is
there for you to see. It is finished, over. Forget him. I would not have
allowed it in any case, even if Rina had not existed. You're mine, exactly
what I want.”
Source: Dark Illusion
“How dare you sport thus with life?”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“How dare you touch my cookies, you bastard!” Jason said in utter disgust before popping the cookie into his mouth and heading back to his house.
“Damn those looked good, too,” Brad grumbled.
Haley sighed. “Don’t worry I have a second plate on my counter.” The words were barely out of her mouth when Jason abruptly changed course and headed towards her house.
“Well, there was,” she said, watching Jason walk into her house like he owned it. A minute later he walked out of her house, carrying both plates and the gallon of milk she had in her fridge. He headed back to his house, but not before he glared at Brad. “You cookie thieving bastard,” they heard him mutter.
Brad rolled his eyes, chuckling. “And people wonder how I lost weight rooming with him in college.”
Source: Playing for Keeps
“How dare you treat your soil like dirt!”
“How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken.”
The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. “Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won’t have people like you screaming out for people like me; for people like you are so ghastly and in need of saving too many times.” Lucy to Garrett from my Steampunk YA Romance book I have started.”
“How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?”
Source: Day by Day with Celestine Sibley
“How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?”
“How dark are all the ways of god to man!”
“How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.”
Source: Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism
“How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he studies and loves them, letter by letter. But I, who wished to read the book of the world and of my own nature, did presume to despise the letters and signs. I called the world of appearances, illusion. I called my eyes and tongue, chance. Now it is over; I have awakened.”