H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.”
Source: Snuff
“How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.”
“How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!”
“How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.”
“How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.”
“How hard is it to adjust to Earth life? Many incarnated adults only seem to be “grown up.” Inwardly they’re protesting humanity still; angels in human form who never manage to accept those harsh and dumbed-down vibrational frequencies, no matter how many years they breathe air and how strongly their human hearts beat.
Understandably so. Every “normal” adjustment to human life could be considered a triumph, especially in the waning years of the Age of Faith.
Even if nothing else were strange about human lifetimes in this era, growing into adulthood requires decades to learn how to run the body, gain a sense of self, manage money; then, depending upon the particulars of a Life Contract, additional challenges add to every lifetime intense potential for “education.”
Source: Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening. A Memoir.
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”
“How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.”
“How hard it is for women to keep counsel!”
“How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“How hard it is, to be forced to the conclusion that people should be, nine tenths of the time, left alone! - When there is that in me that longs for absolute commitment. One of the poem-ideas I had was that one could respect only the people who knew that cups had to be washed up and put away after drinking, and knew that a Monday of work follows a Sunday in the water meadows, and that old age with its distorting-mirror memories follows youth and its raw pleasures, but that it's quite impossible to love such people, for what we want in love is release from our beliefs, not confirmation in them. That is where the 'courage of love' comes in - to have the courage to commit yourself to something you don't believe, because it is what - for the moment, anyway - thrills your by its audacity. (Some of the phrasing of this is odd, but it would make a good poem if it had any words...)”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923
“How hard it is to hate a person you've once loved.”
Source: The Distant Marvels
“How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!”
Source: The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin
“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.”
“How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.”
-Mehul.M”
“How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.”
Source: My Days
“How hard it is to understand that some people do not want to be with you regardless what you have done or what you haven’t.”
“How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!”
“How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.”
Source: South Wind
“How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.”
Source: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel
“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
Source: The plague: translated from the French
“How hard it was for me
to find you the perfect gift.
I had looked everywhere
and considered every idea
until I had an epiphany
and felt as wise as the magi.
For my gift would be simple.
For my gift would be honest.
How hard it was for me
to wrap myself neatly
and feign sobriety.
Yet,
how easy it was for you
to pull the ribbon and uncover me.
Exposing my fears.
Exposing my desires.
How hard it was for me
to gift myself to you.
Yet,
how easy it was for you
to make me undone.”
“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.”
Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.”
Source: Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)
“How hard you work matters more than how much you make.”
“how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.”
“How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!”
Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer
“How hardening to the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into a bundle of struggling rags and pain.”
Source: The Black Prince
“How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?”
“How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?”
“How has it come to this? Where once my life was populated with the living, now I seem to keep company only with ghosts and ghouls and the like.”
Source: Last Days in Cleaver Square
“How has it happened that I am writing you? ...I felt an irresistible desire to remind you, just you, of my existance.”
Source: The Idiot
“How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.”
“How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”
“How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.”
“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversations about how my head is going to find itself on a spike." - Cardan Greenbriar, The Cruel Prince”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.”
“How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.”
“How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?”
“How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
“How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.”
“How have you always felt?” he wondered.
“Loved.” Her eyes opened and met his. “Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad.”
He felt himself stiffen. “Why sad?”
“Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn’t enough.”
Source: Always Yours, Baby
“How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?”
Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living