H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How easy it is to idealize someone when your time together was fraught and short. We were never bored together, never grated on each other's nerves. It wasn't real.”
“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“How easy it is to love.”
Source: The Listener
“How easy it is
to love someone
who is like a blooming flower.”
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
“How easy it is to pay loyalty with the tongue,
And how difficult it is to fulfill loyalty with heart and soul!
The highest form of loyalty is to be loyal to our murshid/master.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.”
“How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.”
“How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.”
“How easy it is to slip.
How hard it is to climb.
How wise it is to keep in step
And never fall behind.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“How easy it is to tell tales!”
“How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.”
“How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch”
Source: Meaning of Modern Art
“How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out.
Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil.”
“How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.”
Source: Peyton Place
“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”
Source: The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam
“How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with.”
Source: Eclipse
“How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208”
“How easy it was to adjust to extravagance.”
Source: The Prospectors
“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
Source: The Cuckoo's Calling
“How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!”
Source: Passion: Book 3 of the Fallen Series
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
Source: Americanah
“How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!”
“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”
Source: City of Bones
“How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.”
“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Source: Novels, 1973-1977
“How easy love makes fools of us.”
“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“How easy your life becomes when a nice girl enters in.”
Source: A Silent Figure
“How effortless it is to open
In the arms of somebody real.”
Source: Seasons of Life
“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
“How else can one claim one’s maternal heritage but by being blood and bone, dirt and stone?”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?”
“How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“How else could people exist in a world of good and evil, where wicked atrocities abound in backyards, yet somehow still be capable of experiencing joy and love? Surely Darius was not the only survivor of evil, not the only one who longed to see good in the world. He had just focused on the wrong thing, allowing it to consume him.”
Source: Recompense
“How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?”
Source: Born Free: The Story of Elsa
“How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.”
“How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?”
“How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?”
Source: Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
“How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?”
“How else would you be able to talk, kitten-cat, if you were not thinking, hmmm?' said George to his charge.
But it was Francois...who answered:
...'Ah oui...but there are a lot of two-legs [people] who do not think very much at all but who always seem to do most of the talking.'" (p124)”
“How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!”
Source: Who is Man?
“How embarrassing it is to be human.”
“How embarrassing to be human.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“How embarrassing. To suddenly understand how much of a burden you are to another person, how much someone else might wish to be free of you.”
Source: The Wilderness
“How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.”
“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
“How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself