H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?”
“How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?”
“How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. “Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“How does "Let go and let God" measure up against Scripture? Remember, the test isn't what sounds deep, what sounds holy, or even what makes sense to us. For the Christian, the test is Scripture.”
Source: The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight
“How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.”
“How does life treat me? Life is the "I" or divine Ego, and the "ME" is the corporeal part. We are all visitors, I treat it well and it does the same to me.”
“How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.”
“How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.”
“How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye-- The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?”
“How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?”
“How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?”
“How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.”
“How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“How does one acquire confidence? Ask the psychologists.”
Source: The art of making dances
“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?”
Source: We Tragic Few
“How does one arrive at the decision to kill God?" Dad asked. "It's easier than you might expect. We had a problem. And I... I was the answer.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“How does one attain happiness?'
'By learning to be content with whatever one gets.'
'Then can’t one ever desire anything?'
'Yes, one can,' said the Master, 'provided one has the attitude of an anxious father I once met in a delivery ward. When the nurse said, 'I know you were hoping to get a boy, but it’s a baby girl,' the man replied, 'Oh! It doesn’t matter really, because I was hoping that it would be a girl if it wasn’t a boy.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense
“How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'
'You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.
'Yes and No,' he answered.
'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.”
Source: Hope for the Flowers
“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
Source: Hope for the Flowers
“How does one capture, in words, the life he has lived? I needed the courage and open-hearted honesty, compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness of self that enabled me to complete this task. Only with these companions was I able to live my life twice.”
Source: The 11th Inkblot: A Novel
“How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.”
“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”
“How does one cure the soul? Through the senses”
“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into the heads of people we would never meet in our ordinary lives and travel to countries we would otherwise never visit.”
Source: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
“How does one do justice to what occasions philosophical wonder in us without conferring false sublimity upon it? We said that what occasions Frege’s wonder—the absoluteness of the logical order—seems to him to be such that it cannot possibly be implicated in our dependence upon language: say, in our meaning to assert p in using a proposition to say one thing rather than another, or in our using just these words rather than some others to assert it. The Tractatus (while repudiating Frege’s conception that the nature of logic may in no way be implicated in that of language) still seeks a way to hold onto the idea that in logic it is not we who express, by means of signs, what we want; rather it is the nature of the essentially necessary signs—it is logic—that asserts itself. The later Wittgenstein, as we are about to see, seeks to undo this residual subliming of the logical in the Tractatus, while in no way seeking to dissipate the sense of wonder at the illimitable depth of the logical—(what he later calls) the grammatical—that shows itself in our forms of thought and life.”
Source: The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
“How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don`t want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.”
“How does one get bored of life?”
“How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.”
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It's
all rather simple, really," he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. "Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...you are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over...with us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.”
Source: Corcitura
“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world
“How does one hate a country, or love one? ... I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks,... but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. It is simply self-love?”
“How does one hate a country, or love one? [...] What is the sense of giving a boundary [...] of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.”
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
Source: Lord Jim
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
Source: Lord Jim
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”
“How does one know the true path?’
‘Not through arguments—they never reach a conclusion; not from teachers—
they can only give their opinions; to know the true path one must, in silence and
solitude, reflect on one’s own life.”
Source: Jaya: 9
“How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.”
“How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.”
Source: The good word and other words
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”
Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?...”
Source: 1984
“How does one move a rock? Walk around it.”
“How does one navigate this territory in the interim? This tricky place of peripheral connection to motherhood? Also, considering that the partial or what I’ve taken to calling ‘perimatrescence’ triggers not only the desire to have a baby, but also awakens the need to express and share your nurturing or mothering qualities - How do you give yourself permission to nurture or embody your ‘mothering heart’, so to speak? In other words, how do you express the energy of the wild mother archetype in daily life while you are still journeying towards motherhood?”
“How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.”
“How does one proceed in a situation like this? If only the discovery of mutual admiration could lead promptly into making out. If only I could say, 'Listen. I like you, and you like me, so let’s go find a secluded park and touch each other.”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?”
Source: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
“How does one say something new and not retell?”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.”
“How does one weight the value of one life against another?"
-Anatomy to Fang, Chapter 20”
Source: Renewed
“How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.”