H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How is that we can presume the authority to take a life when that life has no say in the taking? And as I ponder that, I’ve come to think that it’s less about taking the authority and more about the fact that somewhere along the way we’ve lost our respect for life. And if that’s truly the case, then what else are we killing?”
“How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?”
Source: Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man
“How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.”
“How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!”
“How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?”
Source: Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
“How is the complaint, if you are happy without me;
How is love, if I can not see that glee.”
“How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?”
Source: A Little Chorus of Love
“How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?”
“How is the fair that the respectful children always get in trouble, but the bullies always get away with shattering lives. I am tired of you all tolerating bullying at your school! You all should be ashamed of yourselves! You all need to put a stop to bullying instead of condoning it. Take the wool off of your eyes and see the truth for what it is--and it is the bullying; known as the Silent Killer!”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?”
“How is the lack of prosperity a blessing to the righteous? God, in wisdom knowing what is best for them, accordingly deals with them by giving prosperity to them so far as He sees it will turn to their good, and denies it to them so far as He sees it will turn to their hurt. Whenever therefore God gives any temporal blessing to His saints, it is a sign of His favor, and whenever He denies any, the very denial is also a fruit of His favor.”
Source: A Holy Vision for Family Life
“How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.”
“How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?”
Source: The feminine eye
“How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?”
“How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
“How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?”
Source: Infinite Jest
“How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?”
“How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.'”
“How is this universe possible if infinite variations are needed? The whole meaning and beauty lie in the fact that it is possible and finely tuned. However, it can only be new in a new birth or rebirth to secure an infinite development and meaning of existence and life through chance—the source of infinity or endless potential. Otherwise, it would always be the same or a wholly programmed different universe without free will, but our Universe has free will. Chance itself is the source of infinity and the potential for variations.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“How is transformation built into your company’s corporate structure? This is an important question to answer if you want the company to remain relevant throughout market changes.”
“How is true possession to be distinguished from fraud or the symptoms of disease? The Church prescribes four tests - the language test, the test of preternatural physical strength, the test of levitation and the test of clairvoyance and prevision. If a person can on occasion understand, or better still, speak a language, of which, in his normal state, he is completely ignorant; if he can manifest the physical miracle of levitation or perform unaccountable feats of strength, and if he can correctly predict the future or describe events taking place at a distance - then that person may be presumed to be possessed by devils. (Alternatively, he may be presumed to be the recipient of extraordinary graces; for in many instances divine and infernal miracles are, most unhappily, identical. The levitation of saintly ecstatic is distinguishable from the levitation of ecstatics demoniacs only in virtue of the moral antecedents and consequences of the event. These moral antecedents and consequences are often hard to assess, and it has sometimes happened that even the holiest persons have been suspected of producing their ESP phenomena and their PK effects by diabolic means.)”
Source: The Devils of Loudun
“How is Ty? There is nothing wrong with Ty, but he is different, and the Clave hates all that is different. They will try to punish him, for being who he is. They would punish a star for burning.”
Source: Bitter of Tongue
“How is your health?"
"Everything is falling apart, my body aches. When I think about you, my headaches.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started. . . . My health is very good.”
“How is your high altitude induced Gender Dysphoria (GD) working out for you?”
“How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.”
“How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.”
“How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.”
“How it feels if there's a letter for me out of a thousand letters here. Just maybe..”
“How it feels like to be normal”
“How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“How it hurts to dream, to promise, to think when you have absolutely nothing in hand. When the future is looming only by its ambiguity leaving you distressed, afraid of your destiny.. Where to go and how to know.. That suspense is serving its mystery. Let it be not my misery, I already have that anxiety void of any tranquility.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“How it hurts to see you
Achingly beyond my craving touch!
Perhaps, that's the agony
Of a bird with a broken wing
The world seemingly at her feet
Yet not;
And nary a song to sing”
Source: Unrequited: Poetry From The Hurting Heart
“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
“How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“How it is possible for the offspring of a billionaire and a person living in poverty to be born with an equal chance in life? I do not view this as fair. Wealth should not be a deciding factor in who is and who isn't more important.”
“How it is possible to learn anything if you you feel that you know everything”
“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
Source: A Little Princess
“How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.”
“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
“How it pours, pours, pours,
In a never-ending sheet!
How it drives beneath the doors!
How it soaks the passer's feet!
How it rattles on the shutter!
How it rumples up the lawn!
How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
From darkness until dawn.”
Source: Morning Lights and Evening Shadows
“How it's possible there are more votes than voter?”
“How it's possible there are more votes than voters? 1+1= 2 and not 8!”
Source: Escaping Communism, It's Like Escaping Hell
“How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to combust.”
Source: Hold Still
“How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.”
“How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.”
Source: Just Listen: A Novel
“How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.”
“How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.”
Source: The Secret