H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”
Source: An Echo in the Darkness
“How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.”
“How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’
‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’
‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’
‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’
‘No, you are gentle and soft.’
‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’
‘Like a snake?’
‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero
“How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’
‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’
‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’
‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’
‘No, you are gentle and soft.’
‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’
‘Like snake?’
‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero
“How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?”
Source: Shopgirl
“How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!”
“How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?”
Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more
“How is it possible to view every challenge as an opportunity and face the challenge head-on expecting the outcome to be in my favor, always. It is about outlook.
It is about hope.
It is about faith.
It is about perspective.
My life perspective is that I win. I overcome. I am victorious!”
“How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.”
“How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”
“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“How is it, she wonders, that a face can so effectively conceal what lies behind it? How is it not indelibly marked by such callousness, brutality, murderousness?”
Source: Human Acts
“How is it so easy to push a person you pulled towards you? Why a person with heartache is being considered as an emotional fool? When did playing games in a relationship, sending the mixed signals, leaving a person without words became a trend?
From (The Awakening)”
“How is it that a little incident like this suddenly comes back to one, whereas something that moved one deeply at the time can simply be forgotten with the passage of the years?”
Source: The Diary of Lady Murasaki
“How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.”
“How is it that after war and conquest the spoils are split evenly between the Emperor, the treasury and his Varangian Guard? True they are an unmatched commodity in war, but servants nonetheless, not so?Not so. They are tigers. Wild things we have allowed into our lands, our cities and our homes. They stand over our sleeping forms with their terrible axes poised. They have come to know all our secrets and entrenched themselves so deeply within the bosom of the Empire that it begs the question: are we paying them to guard us, or are we bribing them not to kill us?"
- Justrudd Valusarian
Excerpt from
Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga”
Source: Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga
“How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.”
“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.”
Source: Berenice
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
“how is it that
he's always
in my thoughts.
even when
i am not
thinking.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
“How is it that I am completely naked while you haven’t shed even one stitch of clothing?”
“Because you were dinner, Rebecca.”
A snort escaped, mixing with her laughter. “Remind me to have dinner with you more often. I have been missing out.”
“You? What about me?”
Source: Open House
“How is it that I became a conservative from being a liberal? It's because I witnessed how liberals behaved to a conservative. They treated him poorly. Had I not seen that, I wouldn't have opened my eyes.”
“How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?”
“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?”
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
“How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?”
Source: Anatomy of a Boyfriend
“How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?”
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?”
“How is it that one rails against that which is nearly a certainty?”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that was what she was. Wasn’t it?” “Yes.” “How very fascinating!” She smiled brightly. “I’ve never met a courtesan, you know.” “I could have surmised as such.” “She looked just as I imagined they did! Well, she was rather prettier.” Ralston’s eyes darted around the room as though he was looking for the quickest escape route. “Callie. Wouldn’t you rather gamble than talk about courtesans?”
“How is it that she [Hillary Clinton] ends up in Arkansas with a philandering husband who makes 25 grand a year as governor, and she has to provide the income for the family at the Rose Law Firm, in Arkansas? How does this that happen?”
“How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.”
Source: Move On
“How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?”
“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”
Source: Killosophy
“How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?”
Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...
“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators
“How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“How is it that the sky feeds the stars?”
Source: De rerum natur libri sex
“How is it that the system does not allow you to correct the mistake, but it allows you to make one?”
Source: Quantraz
“How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.”
Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations
“How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?”
“How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?”
“How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?”