H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?”
“How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.”
“How many bodies have been found?”
“How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?”
“How many books had she touched?
How many had she felt?”
“How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?”
Source: Some of the
“How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?”
Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel
“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”
“How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.”
“How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.”
“How many campaigns of your life have you heard candidates of both parties promise a fix for the Social Security system? And everybody's got a plan. Every damned candidate has had a plan, and yet it remains unfunded, biggest part of the budget, no end in sight, no solution has ever worked.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
“How many cars out there look like Corvettes? You want something nobody else has. You don't want an old look-alike thing, and that's why Corvettes have the reputation of being one of the fastest cars. I've always had good cars, and a Corvette is one of the best cars I've had. I've had Lamborghinis, I've had Ferraris, I've had Stutz Blackhawks. You name it, I've had them. For the money, Corvette is tops.”
“How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.”
“How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.”
“How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?”
Source: The Witching Hour
“How many chances are there that in one or few of those unknown worlds, some mighty civilizations had contrived the ways to see through the past time and billions of light-years?”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”
“How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!”
Source: Handy Andy
“How many chefs do we know that prefer cooking for chefs than they do customers, yet customers are returning repeatedly and it's the level of support that determines the level of success that restaurant will have.”
“How many chefs when I was a young boy shouted at me during service? All I ever said was "Yes, chef." The customer is the most important. If the chef overreacts, fine. At the end of service, you apologize.”
“How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.”
Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
“How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?”
“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!”
Source: Illuminations
“How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would’ve never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?”
Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage
“How many colors decorate you? Not enough, you should add more. - The Malwatch”
“How many company quality improvement programmes and business consulting hours could be saved if people would only sing again?!”
Source: GOATONOMICS - HOW OUR FAITH DETERMINES OUR SHARE OF THE ROAST
“How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!”
Source: The Essays
“How many countless times, in years past, had men in positions of power required delicate ‘favors’ before granting quid pro quo?”
“How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”
“How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.”
“How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.”
“How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.”
“How many dead lives and fading memories were buried in and beneath the names of the places in this country. Under the recorded names were other names, just as "Macon Dead," recorded for all time in some dusty file, hid from view the real names of people, places, and things. Names that had meaning. No wonder Pilate put hers in her ear. When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?”
“How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?”
“How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho) Probably a couple of million…you know it’s really hard to count to a million, plus they’re always dying and new ones are coming in. I tried to count once, but it got really depressing so I stopped. The constant adding and subtracting. Not my forte, really. (Asmodeus)”
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.”
“How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me.”
“How many dictatorships are we overlooking simply because they transpire behind closed doors?”
Source: Embracing Taylor
“How many different deaths I can die?”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?”
Source: Allegiant
“How many diners should a man rob before he turns the gun on himself? The question whispered in Richie’s ear as he swallowed the last bite of pancake. He and Alabama had gotten the idea of stealing from diners when they caught Pulp Fiction at a four-year anniversary screening in the New Beverly Cinema in LA last year where they’d gone to shoot dope and drift among the neon haze of Hollywood glitz, thinking Shit, look how in love they are holding up that diner, that could be us. But a dozen diners later the charm had worn off and they’d returned to being just a couple junkie losers stuck in the small-time.”
Source: Porno Valley
“How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.”
“How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?”
“How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?”
Source: The Hidden Masters of Marandur
“How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to find a word they wrote? The answers are revealing, particularly when we draw the striking - and historically typical - contrast to the attitudes towards their counterparts in enemy domains.”
“How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.”