H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.”
“How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows”
Source: Impromptu Scribe
“How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“How innocent were these Trees, that in
Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze,
Stood garlanded and gay;
Who now in sundown glow
Of serious colour clad confront me with their show
As though resigned and sad,
Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold;
Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old;
Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you,
Who tell once more in tones of time,
Your foliaged farewell.”
Source: Sequences
“How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!”
Source: It Occurred to Me
“How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.”
“How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“How insufficient the memory, to fail before death.
how will hear these notes when the train slides
into the yard, the lights turned out, and the song
lingers with breaths rising from empty seats?
I know I am too human to praise what is fading.
But for now, I just want to listen as the train fills
completely with warm water, and we are all
swimming slowly toward the man with Mozart
flowing from his hands. I want nothing
but to put my fingers inside his mouth,
let that prayer hum through my veins.
I want crawl into the hole in his violin.
I want to sleep there
until my flesh
becomes music.”
“How intelligence comes--- chased by the haunting emotions......for in their eyes..you sense the touching tenderness, in their voice, you hear the poignant cry of sadness. Their stillness speaks of the tearful sound of silenced feelings....”
“How intelligence comes--- chased by the haunting emotions......for in their eyes..you sense the touching tenderness, in their voice, you hear the poignant cry of sadness. Their stillness speaks of the tearful sound of silenced feelings....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee”
“How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!”
“How interesting... humans will drag others down in order to get what they want even in death.”
Source: Black Butler I
“How interesting it is that the attitude that ultrarealists choose to adopt in situations where their attitude is the only thing they can control is one of finding meaning in their suffering.”
Source: The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life
“How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.”
“How involved you are in your children's lives, is your own responsibility. Even if you choose to ignore this fact.”
“How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.”
Source: The Invisible Library
“How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.”
“How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.”
Source: Jesus for President
“How ironic it is then, to realize how many of we humans are masochists! That even when we are placed in paradise, the majority of us would, by choice, focus on everything outside the present moment and make ourselves suffer by thinking about Dis-Ease! Too many of us would dwell on a past that no longer exists while everything in the present moment is wonderful. What great paradoxes we as humans are capable of!”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“How ironic it is to have your past-self staring at you”
Source: When the Beauty is the Beast: Scar of the Past
“How ironic it was that mortals, who had the least time of all, were willing to waste so much of it away from the people they love.”
Source: My Soul to Keep
“How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.”
Source: The Body Electric
“How ironic that in a building where so much emphasis and importance is put on art, decor, painting, sculptures - a place where they want to surround themselves with all these beautiful things - I need to remind them just how important the arts are to young people.”
Source: Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation
“How ironic that modern culture, by so often intimating power as the highest good, should force women to accept what amounts to nothing less than patriarchal thinking, in the most pejorative sense of the adjective.”
Source: Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness - Library Edition
“How ironic that our family should be a safe haven. Our parents and siblings are supposed to love us, accept us, and care for us. They should protect us and support us. Sometimes, our home is where we find the deepest heartaches.”
Source: Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma
“How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.”
Source: The Emerging Church
“How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.”
“How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?”
Source: Thunderhead
“How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.”
“How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War
“How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.”
“How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.”
“How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!”
“How irritating. Penny was still reeling and breathlessly from their kiss, and he... wasn't, apparently. Surely a considerate man would at least pretend to be a bit unmoored.
Then the door reopened, and he entered again. "Your Ladyship, I-"
After a lengthy pause, she prompted him. "You...?"
He frowned at the floor. "We."
We.
He said this as though it were a complete sentence, but even after several moments of contemplation, Penny could not make sense of it.
With an annoyed shake of his head, he wrenched open the door for the third time, stormed through it, and slammed it behind him with such derisive force that the portraits rattled on the wall.
Penny smiled to herself.
With that, she could be satisfied.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“How is a balding young woman with thinning hair supposed to make money in this economy? She should sell feet pics.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“How is a call to change named shame,
named penance, named chastisement?
How does one say
what if
without reproach?”
Source: Just Us: An American Conversation
“how is a Greek chorus like a lawyer
they’re both in the business of searching for a precedent
finding an analogy
locating a prior example
so as to be able to say
this terrible thing we’re witnessing now is
not unique you know it happened before
or something much like it
we’re not at a loss how to think about this
we’re not without guidance
there is a pattern
we can find an historically parallel case
and file it away under
ANTIGONE BURIED ALIVE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
COMPARE CASE HISTORIES 7, 17 AND 49
now I could dig up those case histories
tell you about Danaos and Lykourgos and the sons of Phineus
people locked up in a room or a cave or their own dark mind
it wouldn’t help you
it doesn’t help me
it’s Friday afternoon
there goes Antigone to be buried alive”
Source: Antigonick
“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.”
“How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado?
You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.”
“How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?”
“How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?”
“How is an elephant like a schizophrenic?”
“I – what?”
“An elephant never forgets.”
He said nothing.
“That’s an AI joke,” she said after a while.”
Source: Echopraxia
“How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. “Improving how exactly?” I asked. “In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?” “Or in turning off caps-lock?” added Eddie. “You noticed that too?” I asked. “Hard not to,” he said.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“How is beauty ever to be seen through a tarnished lens?”
Source: The Doctor's Daughter
“How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.”
“How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?”
“How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well ... great.' She hung up.”
Source: Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel