H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?”
“How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.”
“How do you determine if a man is successful is it by the assets he currently owns or his abilities to wheel into existence everything he does not own.”
“How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.”
“How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.”
Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
“How do you do all the good you can do?”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“How do you do?”
“How do you do?” echoed Mr. Ingleby.
They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting.
Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.”
Source: Murder Must Advertise
“How do you do it?"
"Do what?"
"All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."
Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered.”
Source: The Tenth Circle
“How do you do it?'' one of the nicer guards asked me one day through the interpreter. ''How do you not lose your mind with loneliness? How do you starve yourself? How do you survive without wanting to die?''
''Allah,'' I said and then tried to explain to him about my faith and the belief that all of this was Allah's wish.
For years, the interrogators, Miller, the revolving door of colonels had desensitized us to the violence of our daily lives. They hit us so much that we no longer felt the pain of the punch. There was something bigger at work protecting us, something beyond our capabilities, and that kept us alive without losing our minds. This was Allah's Mercy, and we all felt it there. We couldn't survive without Allah's help.”
Source: Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.”
“How do you do that? (Abbie) What, sweetheart? (Hunter) Make me crazy to beat you one minute and crazy to love you the next. (Abbie)”
“How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.”
“How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.”
“How do you eat your roots?”
Source: Kartography
“How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.”
“How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?”
“How do you enter a room? How do you walk into a job interview? How do you approach a sales prospect for the first time? Accomplished leaders know that the way they make an entrance can project their confidence and set the tone for their interaction with others. Use your poise, postures, and gestures to make it grand.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“How do you escape the pain;you must pray for grace to persevere in a spirit of eternal patience in the face of suffering.”
“How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.”
Source: Lock and Key
“How do you ever hold on to anybody?”
Source: The Pearl Thief
“How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?”
Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel
“How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?”
“How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?”
“How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?”
“How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.”
“How do you expect to notice the beauty in life if you see through eyes filled with hatred.”
“How do you explain a war?", he asks himself, "How can you try and make sense of something that doesn't make any sense?”
Source: Letters from Afghanistan
“How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?”
Source: Where the Dead Lie
“How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.”
“How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?”
Source: Strange Places
“How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.”
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?”
Source: Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars
“How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?”
Source: Daring Chloe
“How do you explain to an innocent citizen of the free world the importance of a credit default swap on a double-A tranche of a subprime-backed collateralized debt obligation? He tried, but his English in-laws just looked at him strangely. They understood that someone else had just lost a great deal of money and Ben had just made a great deal of money, but never got much past that. "I can't really talk to them about it," he says. "They're English.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.”
Source: Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
“How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?”
Source: What's Wrong with Homosexuality?
“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
Source: Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
“How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it”
“How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.”
“How do you fancy making some dark cherry ganache with me, and we can fill these little yuzu shells with that instead? They can be a temporary special: a macaron de saison." I scrape the offending basil mixture into the bin.
"Whatever you want." Her brightening eyes betray her.
"That's the enthusiasm I was looking for," I reply, smiling. "What shall we call them then? It has to be French."
We surrender to a thoughtful silence. Outside the cicadas are playing their noisy summer symphony. I imagine them boldly serenading one another from old tires, forgotten woodpiles, discarded plastic noodle bowls.
"Something about summer..." she mumbles.
After conferring with my worn, flour-dusted French-English dictionary, we agree on 'Brise d'Ete.”
Source: The Color of Tea
“How do you feel about a little bait and switch?”
Kelly licked his lips, then grinned slowly. “Sounds about as fun as you bending me over one of those interrogation desks.”
Nick groaned and pushed his chair back so they were no longer in contact. “Don’t fucking tempt me, okay? Those rooms have video feeds.”
“Really? Do they record?”
Nick had to get up and walk away as Kelly laughed merrily at his desk. “You’re killing me, Kels,” he called over his shoulder. “Killing me!”
Source: Shock & Awe
“How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do you get something, do you put that into words of your own, from what they say, or from what you think? Or if it were music over the radio, have you ever tried to think how it would look?”
“How do you feel about Coldplay, Bach, and Taylor Swift for an opening trio?” C’s thumbs tap away at the screen.
“Am I going through a 17th-century break-up with a beach?” Neo asks, monotonous.
“That’d make a cool music video, actually.” C looks up, considering it.”
Source: I Fell in Love With Hope
“How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.”
“How do you feel?”
He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“How do you feel?"
Her pupils were dilated, her cheeks flushed. "Like I want you to kiss me again."
And _that_ was the invitation he'd been waiting for.”
Source: Skin Deep
“How do you feel? ”
“Like I will die if I don’t eat this apple.”
He considered this. “Then why don’t you bite it? See what happens.”
“Are you mad? ”
“I prefer curious.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes