H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.”
“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
“How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.”
“How is having sex with her for real, going to make me feel any less nervous about faking it up in front of ten sodding cameramen later on?”
Source: Hollywood Girlfriend
“How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.”
“How is ignoring me working out for you?”
“How is it a man can walk out the door with only the clothes on his back and he fares well, but a woman needs to compress her entire chamber into the confines of a satchel to ensure survival?”
Source: Cleftlocke
“How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?”
“How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?”
“How is it fair that the respectful children always get in trouble and the bullies get away with shattering lives? You all need to put a stop to bullying instead of condoning it.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“How is it fair that you eat an entire breadbasket and still have abs, but I just get rounder?"
"Then keep eating, because you're round in all the right places.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?”
“How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?”
“How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?”
“How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?”
“How is it having more control if you have less money in your pocket as Martin Lewis Moneysaving expert says?”
“How is it?" I ask as we stroll towards the dressing rooms. "Working at the playground. That must be fun."
"Sure, they're just adorable," she says, "For the first five minutes. And then I want to wring their adorable little necks."
I stop, shocked. "I always figured you loved kids."
"Yeah, no." Kayla shakes her head emphatically. "One kid, I can do, even two-- just stick them in front of a Disney movie, let them play Xbox all night. But a herd of them?" She shudders.”
Source: Getting Over Garrett Delaney
“How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and I come running”
Source: Rose Quartz: Poems
“How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?”
“How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-”
“How is it I'm begging you for housing,
when you burnt my building down?
You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those
other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls,
all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon.”
Source: A Portable Paradise
“How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?”
“How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise.”
Source: White Noise
“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?”
“How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?”
“How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allah’s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?”
“How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!”
“How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?”
“How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?”
Source: Eleven Minutes: A Novel
“How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party”
Source: The spectator
“How is it possible I knew about sperm first? That doesn’t seem fair.”
Source: Breasts and Eggs
“How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.”
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?”
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”
“How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?”
Source: Where She Went
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?”
“How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?”
“How is it possible that in just the last ten years all of these things which were taboo throughout our culture, throughout the culture, things that were taboo are now not only normal but celebrated, and people who were not really supportive of them are called kooks and the new weirdos?”
“How is it possible that it feels like you are breaking my heart, and I haven't even had you yet?”
Source: The Spanish Love Deception
“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.”
“How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?”
“How is it possible to act so harshly after having been so unhappy? I'd always believed misfortune nudges open the soul, that remembering the pains we ourselves endured, our heart grows more sensitive to the suffering of others. I was wrong. Unhappiness hardens people, dulling them to their own pain; one grows accustomed to be unmoved by that of others, to remain impassive in the face of attack and therefore indifferent to blows that strike others.”
Source: Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III
“How is it possible to both love someone and loathe them all in the same moment?”
Source: Iron Flame
“How is it possible to exist with so much pain?”
Source: Silver Bay
“How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?”
“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“How is it possible to hate something so completely and then suddenly love it so unreasonably?”
Source: Feel Free: Essays