H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“How funny things are! You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you've seen comes in useful. It shows art and all that isn't really waste of time.”
Source: Theatre
“How funny would it be if we left a trail of Faerie dust in our wake?”
“That would be hilarious.” I laughed. “It’s a shame we don’t produce any.” Do we? I idiotically shook my hand as I tried to brandish Faerie dust like Tinkerbell. It didn’t work.”
Source: Elemental Reality
“How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.”
Source: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.”
“How generous is dance, it barters your moments of anguish and gifts you joy equal to lifetimes.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?”
“How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602
“How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.”
Source: Poems
“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”
“How? Give me permission, tell me it’s okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can’t see straight.”
Source: Strawberry Kisses
“How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.”
“How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.”
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell
“How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”
“How gladly would I renounce for my whole life the warm food so common at home if I only did not lack good bread and beer now!”
Source: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”
Source: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!”
Source: THE
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
Source: Two fables
“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
“How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.”
Source: Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c
“How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care where it is. They can't tell me any different. Money, money is the thing that causes it all. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that the people that start wars and promote 'em are the men that make the money, make the ammunition, make the clothing and so forth. Just think of the poor kids that are starvin' to death in Asia and so forth that could be fed with how much you make one big shell of. ~Alvin "Tommy" Bridges”
“How good a person you are depends only on how much compassion and sympathy you have in your heart for others.”
“How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.”
Source: Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics
“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
Source: Dracula
“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?”
Source: Consciousness Explained
“How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate”
“How good is God! How sweet his yoke!”
“How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.”
“How good is life, the mere living!”
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”
Source: Selections from Robert Browning
“How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.”
“How good it feels to be completely alone! To be able to talk to ourselves out loud, to walk around without being looked at, to lean back in an undisturbed reverie! Every house becomes an open field, every room has the breadth of a farm.
The usual sounds are all strange, as if they belonged to a nearby but independent universe. We are kings at last. This is what we all truly long to be, and the most plebeian among us perhaps more ardently than those full of false gold. For a moment we are the universe’s pensioners, recipients of a steady income, with no needs and no worries.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“How good it feels when you've made a special place in the heart of the one you love!”
Source: A Kind Of Commitment
“How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.”
“How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one’s eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!”
Source: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
“How good it is to love live things, even when what they've done is terrible, how much we each want to be the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose into our own wide open without a single harness of sin to stop us.”
Source: Bright Dead Things
“How good it is to work in the invigorating fresh air under the life-giving sun amid the inspiring beauty of nature. There are many who recognize this... How good it is to earn you livelihood by contributing constructively to the society in which you live - everyone should, of course, and in a healthy society everyone would.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is the mere juice of grapes, and your purple edged robe simply the hair of a sheep soaked in shell-fish blood!
And in sexual intercourse that it is no more than the friction of a membrane and a spurt of mucus ejected.
How good these perceptions are at getting to the heart of the real thing and penetrating through it, so you can see it for what it is!
This should be your practice throughout all your life: when things have such a plausible appearance, show them naked, see their shoddiness, strip away their own boastful account of themselves.
Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced that your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.”
“How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.”
Source: Meditations
“How good it would be to make my own decisions; if only I knew how to.”
Source: Rich Girl, Poor Girl
“How good life is when one does something good and just!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)
“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
“How good that had felt, in its strange familiarity.”
Source: The Midnight Library