H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How far can you run? You’ll never know if you don’t move.”
“How far can your imagination take you? I don't know. That's up to you, but I think you should find out.”
“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”
Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf
“How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”
“How far down the path had we come to have no obligations?”
Source: White Knight
“How far from God would I wander if I had a life without suffering?”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?”
“How far have we strayed from our essential natures. Just the sight of blood can make some men faint, and people scurry to hide such horrors from the public eye, hosing down sidewalks where blood has spilled, or covering children's eyes when violence erupts on the television. Humans have lost touch with who, and what, they really are.
Some of us, however, have not.
We walk among the rest, normal in every respect; perhaps we are more normal than anyone else because we have not allowed ourselves to be wrapped and mummified in civilization's sterile bandages. We see blood, and we do not turn away. We recognize its lustrous beauty; we feel its primitive pull.
Everyone who drives past an accident and cannot help but look for the blood understands this. Beneath the revulsion, the urge to turn away, throbs a greater force. Attraction.
We all want to look. But not all of us will admit it.”
Source: The Surgeon
“How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?”
“How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.”
Source: Caddie Woodlawn
“How far in the future TPMR [The Pleasure Model Repairman] is set is a trickier issue. The question goes right to the center of the maze, where the walls are painted with the glyphs of the thematic archetypes that matter to me most. Perception of time, the interplay of memory and identity, nostalgia as societal glue, and the pulpy residue of the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same. Of course, there is a straightforward answer that skirts all this voodoo babble, and it’s that this world must be very far into the future, indeed, given the sophistication of artificial beings and the sprawling family of development worlds called Earth.”
Source: The Pleasure Model Repairman
“How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?”
“How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?”
“How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.”
“How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?”
“How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.”
Source: The Gay Science
“How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law, it is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.”
“How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?”
“How far must you go to gain respect? Um...
Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own.
Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.”
“How far should a person go in the name of true love?”
“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)
“How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.”
“How far was she willing to go to gain acceptance — to belong? How far was she willing to go for love — to be loved?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?
Just one way, you do get back home. You have a boy or a girl of your own and now and then you remember, and you know how they feel, and it's almost the same as if you were your own self again, as young as you could remember.
And God knows he was lucky, so many ways, and God knows he was thankful. Everything was good and better than he could have hoped for, better than he ever deserved; only, whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.”
Source: A Death in the Family
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life.
...
whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.”
“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“How far we can go with our liberty of conscience, without offending God, and disturbing the natural order of things…”
Source: Truth According to Michael
“How far we claim to have come - accepting all men as created equal. Gender being the requisite qualifier, as women are not reviewed in the same fashion - their fashion hopefully better suited to the bedroom than the boardroom. And, you know, homosexuals not really being 'men,' cannot be judged equivalent to their stiffer-wristed brethren. On religion, well, some Christians are willing to make room for a Jew or two in their inner circles. But Mecca-facing prayer must be met with flaming crosses. Close your eyes to the details, the big picture can still be viewed through rose-colored glass. But go any distance beyond the rhetoric, truth becomes a shadowed lens.”
Source: Triangles
“How far we go in life doesn’t depend only on our degree, hard work, and courage. It depends more on how humble, kind, and forgiving we are.”
“How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.”
“How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.”
“How far would you go for someone you love ? Well, when my grandkids ask me how I pledged my love to their grandma, I'll say, I told her I would die for her, after I found out I didn't have an incurable disease. Then, I ran away while grandma was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman that grandpa slept with. You never know when you're making a memory.”
“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
“How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.”
“How far would you have to soar into the sky to get the best view of the abyss? Anyone has reached the bottom of the deepest abyss is equally capable of reaching the top of the highest mountain.”
Source: Regatta De Mort: The Mad God
“How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.”
“How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!”
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
“How far you've brought us," Kathleen murmured, resting against him, "in such a short time. You've turned us all into a family."
"Don't give me credit for that, love," Devon said, ducking his head to press a crooked grin against the side of her face. "We all did it together."
Kathleen turned in his arms to regard the trio of goldfinches. "I wonder what they'll do," she mused aloud, "now that they're out in the world, in the open air?"
He snuggled her back against him, and nuzzled her cheek. "Whatever they want.”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?”
Source: The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald
“How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?”
“How fares it with the happy dead?”
Source: In Memoriam
“How fascinating it is that we can live with ourselves every day, be with ourselves every moment, and yet still not fully know who we are. There’s a profound truth to embrace here: You haven’t met all of you yet.”
“How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.”