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 know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, “I am a whole different person right now”? If yes, then it’s real. The evidence of truth and reality, lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it’s from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed.”
“How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.”
“How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.”
“How do you know if you are going into judgment? If you feel any negativity toward another person whatsoever, you are going into judgment about them.”
Source: What Is Healing?: Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
“How do you know if you are living to far above (or below) those among whom you are ministering? Ask yourself this question: Is this (car, house, lifestyle) helping me or hindering me in winning and discipling people for Jesus?”
“How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?”
“How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?”
Source: Maame
“How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.”
“How do you know if your inner voice or sense of guidance is your deeper-self speaking its wisdom, your unconscious childhood programming, or the voice of your Aunt Matilda? Discerning the difference between an automatic response stemming from family beliefs, childhood distortions, or culture, and guidance from our connection with our higher/deeper self, makes life, success, and relationships so much easier.”
“How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag."
"Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow."
"But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him."
"Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that.”
Source: City of Thieves
“How do you know it's love and not obsession?”
Source: Clumsy
“How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom’s ‘humble’ gift.”
Source: Shadow Heir
“How do you know it won't be duels at dawn when you tell him you've accepted my proposal of marriage?" "Don't be ridiculous. He's not that hotheaded. Though I daresay he may try to...er...knock some sense into you. He and Jarret. And possibly Gabe." "Our bargain is looking better and better all the time," he said drily. "I get to fight the Sharpe men while you stand around pretending to care." He came close enough to whisper, "I will definitely require a few kisses of you if that comes to pass, minx." -Giles and Minerva”
“How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free. "Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt." "Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?”
Source: Godless
“How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.”
“How do you know my name?” I asked as he lowered his weight beside me.
“We go to the same school. And why are you hiding your face? You never do that.”
“How do you know?" Red repeated each word slowly, enunciating every consonant. "If the CDC brewed up something in their lab and it accidentally was let loose in the world, do you think they would tell you?”
Source: The Girl in Red
“How do you know she had sex?” Dallas asks.
“Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification.”
“Oh,” Dallas says with a straight face. “Well that explains a lot.”
Source: Dark Frame
“How do you know she’s the one for you?
...and did you ever notice how, when she’s nervous,she sings? Off-key?
You like that?
Well, that's the thing. I think her flaws make me love her even more. She’s not perfect, but she’s perfect to me.”
Source: Between the Lines
“How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?”
“How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.”
“How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.”
Source: We
“How do you know that the call of the cole tit from the bracken is not really the lamentations of the damned? The world's a deceptive place. A lot of things that you see are not really there anymore. Just the after-image in the eye. So to speak.”
Source: The Passenger
“How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?”
“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”
“How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets.”
Source: Purity
“How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are." By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.”
“How do you know that? (Stryker) I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)”
Source: One Silent Night
“How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.”
Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone
“How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see.”
“How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?”
“How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.”
“How do you know this is Paige?” I ask, pretty sure this is another fantasy. It’s one thing to have Dad’s tracking device. It’s another to actually be tracking Paige, considering she needs to have the transmitter on her.
“The devil tells me.” She lowers her head, looking troubled. “If I promise him certain things,” she mumbles.
“Okay.” I rub my forehead, trying to be patient. There’s a certain art to getting information out of my mom. You need one foot in reality and one foot in her world to get a better picture of what she’s talking about. “How does the devil know where Paige is?”
She looks up at me as if I’d asked the dumbest question in the world.
“The transmitter, of course.”
Source: World After
“How do you know this story?"
Yeva's breath caught. "Because it's my story too," she whispered. "Because I thought I wouldn't be happy until I left town to live in the wood, and then I thought I wouldn't be happy until I could hunt every day, and then I thought I wouldn't be happy until I avenged my father's death. Because I spent a year in an old castle with the young prince and the gray wolf and I thought I couldn't be happy until I killed them both, and when I did, I wept harder than I ever have in my life. Because I thought I couldn't be happy until I went home, and then I thought I couldn't be happy until I came back."
"Because I thought the reason I'd always felt so restless was because I was meant for magic," Yeva said softly. "That if I could fix the story, that if I rescued the young prince and the gray wolf and I found the Firebird and I held in my hands everything I'd ever wanted, I would live happily ever after.”
Source: Hunted
“How do you know?”
“Well, I don’t, I’m making this up, but I bet I’m right.”
“How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Did he put a gun in your hand?”
Source: Black Sunrise
“How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.”
“How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?”
“How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”
“How do you know, what you claim to know?”
Source: Your Mind at Siege : Exploring the Conundrum of Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence through the Lens of The Diamond Sutra
“How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.”
“How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”
Source: Undercover
“How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.”
Source: I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits
“How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you reach a paradoxical state-hating to love someone”
“How do you know when to advance the conversation or when there's something still unresolved? When you are situationally aware, you watch the body language and notice the cues that are given to you. Listening and observing are being mindful in the best sense of the word.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“How do you know when you're finished making love?”