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 that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?”
“How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.”
“How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?”
“How is it that we have become so certain that the sight of years, the summation of decades, should inflict such violence on the viewer - including family - that we have built entire fortresses to keep such bodies out of sight?”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?”
Source: Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution
“How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?”
“How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.”
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone? (P.92)”
Source: M Train
“How is it that what is actually present and transpiring is commonly perceived by the common sense and understanding only, is bare and bald, without halo or the blue enamel of intervening air? But let it be past or to come, and it is at once idealized. It is not simply the understanding now, but the imagination, that takes cognizance of it. The imagination requires a long range. It is the faculty of the poet to see present things as if, in this sense, also past and future, as if distant or universally significant.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“How is it that you always know what to do to cheer me up?”
I shrug, not wanting to give her the real answer, which is simply that I love her.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“How is it that you can see your enemies so clearly and never your friends?”
Source: The Runaway King
“How is it that you know how to befriend wild faerie dogs and ferret out Words of Power, yet you missed one of the fundamental rules of dryadology---namely, not cutting wicked kings out of trees."
"I've learned my lesson, thank you," I snapped. "Should you end up trapped in one, I won't let you out."
"You shall have to. I know you too well, Em. You could never survive without having someone around to snarl at.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“How is it that you live, and what is it you do?”
“How is it that you make me want so many things I had sworn I could do without?”
Source: Edible
“How is it that you never hear how much your friends hate your lover until you get rid of him or her?”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?”
“How is it that you're such an expert on home pregnancy kits?"
You're asking that question of an Italian stallion like myself? The women call me 'sperm of thunder'. I don't dare stand too close for fear I may impregnate them with just a whiff of my manhood.”
Source: The Next Thing on My List
“How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
“How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.”
“How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?”
Source: Of Literature
“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.”
“How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.”
“How is it we can cry tears when we defeat ourselves?”
“How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?”
“How is it women have equality when it comes to taking a hit but the rest of the time they're just some guy's property?”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake
“How is it you can feel you love someone when you hardly know them and how do you stop loving them once you do?”
“How is it you can love the Creator but hate what He created?”
“How is it you’re so ensconced with the darkness of earth, when I sit here like your moon gushing with the light of your infinite worth?”
Source: Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life
“How is it you’ve never married?” A soft splash. “It’s an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.”
“How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?”
Source: Book called Way of perfection. Interior castle. Conceptions of the love of God. Exclamations of the soul to God
“How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.”
“How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.”
Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within
“How is it... that the Son and Holy Spirit are not co-unoriginate with the Father, if they are co-eternal with Him? Because they are from Him, though not after Him. 'Being unoriginate' necessarily implies 'being eternal,' but 'being eternal' does not entail 'being unoriginate,' so long as the Father is referred to as origin. So because They have a cause They are not unoriginate... a cause is not necessarily prior to its effects... Because time is not involved, They are to that extent unoriginate... for the sources of time are not subject to time.”
“How is life a shaped? By parentage, siblings, calss and religion, by schooling, vocational choices, by friends, partnerships, children, by place and time, by illness and accident, and sometimes, but most rarely, by surprising choice.”
Source: Girl Runner
“How is logic like a machine? Here is how one logician explained it around the turn of the twentieth century: "As a material machine is an instrument for economising the exertion of force, so a symbolic calculus is an instrument for economising the exertion of intelligence." Logic, just like a machine, was a tool for democratizing force: built with enough precision and skill, it could multiply the power of the gifted and the average alike.”
Source: A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
“How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.”
Source: The God Box
“How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.”
“How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.”
“How is my communication today laying the foundation for my relationships tomorrow?”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“How is my freedom at stake and everything is still all about Lila?"
I froze, my own dessert spoon halfway to my mouth. "What? The only reason we're all gathered here tonight is for you. You're the one who asked me to investigate."
"Yes, to help me. And instead you're twisting it into some quest your beloved suitors need to fulfill in order to win you over. Spoiler alert, Lila: Nobody likes love triangles. Nobody.”
Source: Homicide and Halo-Halo
“How is my insanity working out for your toxic enterprise?”
“How is my truthful inconvenience working out for you?”
“How is one ever to know why a perfect stranger is kind beyond the call of duty or else inexplicably rude?”
Source: Too Many Questions
“How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained.”
“How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.”
Source: Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works
“How is regeneration of the spinal cord in the salamander related to its initial development ? There is now evidence that in the salamander, the steps of progenitor cell-patterning and controlled neurogenesis that naturally regenerate a severed tail largely recapitulate the steps followed during early embryonic development to initially build the central nervous system. For example, ependymal cells are descendants of radial glial cells retained from the earliest developmental stages in regenerating vertebrates. The ependymal tube that gives rise to regenerated spinal cord following salamander tail amputation is very similar in appearance to the early structure of the neural tube of developing amniotes. But how does that recapitulation occur ? By using a transgenic axolotl that expresses green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), they further examined the regenerated spinal cord by replacing a segment of the spinal cord from a typical animal with a piece of the spinal cord from a GFP-expressing animal - that is, one with green fluorescent cells. They found that the implanted cells in the experimental animals regenerated a green spinal cord ! Thus, regeneration may be a more neural stem-cell like, or pluripotent, state as a response to injury.”
Source: Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process
“How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?”