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 go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.”
“How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?”
“How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?”
Source: RoseBlood
“How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.”
“How do you have a think in pictures? Well, you have to sort the pictures into categories. You know, for example, a dog knows that, you know, there's good people and there's bad people. And I talked to a lady the other day where her dog was afraid of people with white beards because she had adopted him from an animal shelter and somebody with a white beard had abused him. And this dog was now afraid of everybody that had a white beard. That was the bad category.”
“How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?”
Source: The Land of Green Plums
“How do you hold down government spending?”
“How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.”
“How do you hurt someone who doesn’t care what you think of him, doesn’t care what you say to him, and doesn’t care if you attack him?”
Source: The Art of Feeling
“How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.”
“How do you ignite your passion? It takes only a spark. A forward step, an inspired word, a bold attempt, a look, a nudge—anything that sets off a flicker of excitement. When it is your passion, the smallest thing can ignite it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence.”
“How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”
“How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.”
Source: UnWholly
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“How do you keep a business running that you cannot staff due to a labor shortage?”
“How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?”
“Yeah, well, I don’t know how many people know it, but a lot of people have learned that putting your arm up there to hold the mattress is not going to work.”
Source: Car Talk Science: MIT Wants Its Diplomas Back
“How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?"
"Centuries of practice?”
Source: Phoenix Broken
“How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?”
“How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.”
“How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!”
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
“How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?”
“How do you keep your feet on the ground knowing your world is not one person - one brilliant, effervescent, incredibly kind, loving person - lighter?”
Source: Adelaide
“How do you kill a vampire?"-Mac "Hope hes not"-Barrons”
“How do you kill what's already dead?
You revive it just to watch it rot.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“How do you kill yourself without really dying?
Love someone who doesn't love you back.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“How do you know a partner is right for you? That has everything to do with knowing each other and practicing together until you work as one, until you begin to synchronise your movements and your thoughts and your rhythmical feel for the music with your partner.”
“How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locked in matrix... which is programmed by a genius or something more further... which we don't believe it goes like fatasy and science fiction which is ...we are cursed by a witch and we stay in a box... full of illusions.”
“How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow! What was that for? (Geary) Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn’t that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory)”
“How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?”
“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“How do you know... how do you know anything... US officials are making Maduro sounds like a corrupt, evil dictator... almost like a Stalin! Then the alternative voices (Thank God) are saying well they seem to like Maduro just fine over there... and since there must be nothing else to do in the world, US is just playing the old game of 'stop hitting yourself' let's do sanctions, and freeze your assets, and then... THEN LOOK MADURO'S STARVING HIS PEOPLE! Umm. Ya... no. I guess it really doesn't take a lotta brain to be a diplomat.”
“How do you know? How do you know you’re a real boy? You might be a story in a book,” Ahimsa challenged. “That’s it! You’re a Jack-in-the-Book and only pop out when the pages are opened,” he scoffed.”
Source: Happy Jack
“How do you know how you are if you wear the same things as before?” she asked. "You have to shake your life until you rid yourself of everything you thought you were. You will shiver during the transition and then replenish with non-identity. After that, you’ll see clearly. What does that mean? Well, you may have to move out of this country. Build your closet from the ground up. Befriend those you despise. Take a left. Trade different things, you see? One must refresh themselves. Stay current with the needs of our soul.”
“The adventure isn’t real though... like, people don’t actually do those things. It’s very romantic, but it’s not true. People don’t actually do that.”
“What in the world? Do you know your history? We are anything– anything!—we are... in medieval times, kings would behead their brothers. Rulers would commission the most talented artists in the world to paint their bathroom ceilings. People have defeated mammoths with sticks. People have loved. People have killed the innocent to hurt the guilty. Waited until dawn. Mocked death. Staged coup d'états. Go further in your emotions and convictions. Increase your tolerance for extremity. Life can stretch.”
“I think you’re mad,” giggled Andrei, shifting his feet.
“Like a comet,” she stared with a firm jaw.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?”
“How do you know?”
I look at him like he’s one Centaur short of a herd. “Soothsayer, remember? I know stuff.”
Source: Heart on Fire
“How do you know I'm a writer?" I asked.
"I can tell," he said. "You're making shit up in your head all the time.”
Source: In the Cut
“How do you know I’m any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin”
Source: The Wildcat of Braeton
“How do you know I’m not making it up? You don’t. Things work because you believe in them. Call it faith or will or coincidence or whatever. If you believe it will help to light a candle and ask the universe to help you understand the mystery and meaning of the Hierophant, then it will. Don’t spend a bunch of money on learning how to get to know your cards. Just do it. Say hi to them and get to work.”
Source: Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot
“How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.”
Source: Succubus Blues
“How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt.”
“How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life.”
Source: Angels Dark and Light
“How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.”
Source: The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
“How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!”