H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we’ve said all along, is just to coach ’em up.”
“How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.”
“How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves”
Source: New Collected Poems
“How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.”
Source: The Wasted Vigil
“How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always most gentle towards you. When you visit Him, He forgets your sins and speaks only of His joy, His tenderness, and His Love. By the reception He gives to you, one would think He has need of you to make Him happy.”
“How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.”
“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“How language changes - remember when woke just meant you were awake, social media was a gossip page in the local rag, LGBTIQ were just random letters of the alphabet and "sick" meant you were unwell?”
Source: Don't Call Me Nev
“How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he'd linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living.
Nothing fits the body so well as water.”
“How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!”
Source: Sammlung
“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”
“How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.”
Source: The Prince
“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.”
“How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!”
“How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.”
“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.”
Source: All the King's Men
“How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.”
“How light is your heart? Could you carry it over a bridge made of a single hair?”
Source: Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
“How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!”
Source: The betrothal. The espousals
“How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.”
Source: Letters from under a bridge: And poems
“How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“How like an angel came I down!”
Source: Christian Ethicks
“How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother.”
“How like her, though, just to stand and stare at the jets hitting the water. She loved to notice things. Had taught Judith how to be still in a world that moved too quick. "We're not mice," she used to say. "There's no need to scurry.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Source: Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
“How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.”
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain
“How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.”
“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
“How little do the lips and heart agree!
How joyfully do people break their word!
We both are strangers in a foreign land.”
Source: Britannicus
“How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.”
“How little has situation to do with happiness.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!”
“How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”
“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.”
Source: Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
“How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.”
“How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius.”
Source: The Black Prince