H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.”
Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
“How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.”
“How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.”
Source: Last diaries
“How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.”
Source: What We Keep: A Novel
“How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.”
“How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.”
Source: Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood
“how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
“how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.”
Source: The Age of Miracles
“How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?”
Source: Dead Man's Hammer
“How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.”
“How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother. In spite of death, the mark and seal of the parental control, man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticize, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is aquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.”
“How, in such conditions, can I write (to consider only the manual aspect of that bitter folly)? I don't know. I could know. But I shall not know. Not this time. It is I who write, who cannot raise my hand from my knee. It is I who think (just enough to write), whose head is far. I am Matthew and I am the angel - I who came before the cross, before the sinning: came into the world, came here.”
Source: The Unnamable
“How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?”
“How in the fuck is that even possible? Was Hades sleeping on the job o something?"
"Yes, Seth, he took a nap and Perses snuck in the back door and let them out. Then they skipped through the Vale of Mourning, stopped to have a pic-a-nic and then decided to leave the Underworld all slow-like, and all the while Hades was chillin' and doing nothing."
That sounded probable.”
Source: The Return
“How in the fucking hell did you do that?"
Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said simply, as if it would explain everything.”
Source: Drawing the Dragon
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
Source: Factotum
“How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?”
Source: Daddy was a Number Runner
“How in the name of all things good does God work for us and keep us safe when the dreaded phone call detonates, or the shrapnel of shame shreds everything that looks like hope, or the sky lashes round and swallows your dreams whole, or the claw of death guts deep, and how do you stagger forward hiding your bloody entrails? Evil hisses that if God really is love, then we better get roads without any suffering. And we shake off the lie and crush it with truth: Because God really is love, then we get roads with Him, and because God really is love, we are always soul-safe”
Source: WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
“How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?”
“How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.”
“How in the world are we supposed to engage life when we spend all of our life building walls to protect ourselves from the very thing that we say we want to engage? The answer is, I think, understanding that God doesn’t need walls but we need Him.”
“How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.”
Source: Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul
“How in the world do you get mad at somebody for wanting to be black? That's something for which you should get a gold star. That makes you really sensitive. That makes you a really quality person.”
“How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?”
“How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night?”
Source: Crash Landing!
“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.”
Source: U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.”
“How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?”
“How incredibly exciting this one meaningless thing can be, this life of yours.”
Source: Dreaming in the Shadows
“How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.”
Source: Life's That Way
“How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? The soul is tired in a moment, and in fear of losing the little she does understand, she retreats to the permanent lines which habit or chance have dictated, and suffers there.”
Source: A Passage to India
“How indescribable the scent of autumn flowers was– barely a scent at all, really; just a faint, strange smell, pleasant but sad. Could a smell be sad or was it just the association with the dying summer?”
Source: The New Moon with the Old
“How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.”
Source: The Price of Salt
“How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.”
Source: Zoli: A Novel
“How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”
Source: The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans
“How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.”
“How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir