H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?”
Source: Authority
“How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?”
“How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German
“How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.”
“How many languages do we really speak?”
“How many languages do you speak, you barely monolingual prick?”
Source: Bottled Lightning
“How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.”
Source: Blood Memory
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
Source: Out-door Papers
“How many lessons there are and how little they are taken”
“How many likes you get on a selfie will not be what you remember 10 years down the line. The relationships that you form and the memories that you make and the connections that you make with people day to day are the things you remember.”
“How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV?”
Source: A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir
“How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!”
“How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for?”
“How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“How many males had run from this part of her, their alphahole egos threatened by it? [He] hated them all merely for putting the question in her eyes.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.”
“How many marks do you think you’ll get for treason?”
“One from the Scholar to make my skin fairer, one from the Weaver to make me taller, one from the King to make me fatter, one from the Inquisitor to make me stronger, and one from the Warmaster to fix whatever it is he doesn’t like about me.”
“Probably your general attitude. He gets at least a dozen offers of marriage a week; he doesn’t understand what you don’t like about him.”
“Probably his general attitude.”
Source: A Tempest of Shadows
“How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?”
Source: Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar: 250 Inspiring Quotes from the Master Motivator and Friends
“How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?”
“How many meanings are there for the word love? How many nuances and shades of feeling when each should have its own? Why are there so few words for the things that are so important and so many for those that are not? Lina had no answer for this, but…
…because language is both wonderful and yet limiting, it comes from things that can be shared so that we can agree on a term for it. Some experiences and emotions can never be shown to each other, so there can be no word. It’s why we crave the beauty hidden within a metaphor; things that cannot be expressed, only sensed somewhere in the space between words.”
Source: 2 Dark Mirrors
“How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.”
“How many memories can come through at once before they are just jumbled words and faces mixed together by years of pain?”
Source: Infinite Days
“How many men
Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.”
Source: The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre
“How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!”
“How many men are stupid enough to dump two Emerson girls?” Dad asked. “Too bad we’re not mobbed up. We could have his body dumped in the Farmington River.”
“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!”
“How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.”
“How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!”
“How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?”
“How Many Michals Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
And the lamp was on
Darkening up the room
And I sat, alone
Looking for the switch
To turn off the darkness”
Source: Becoming What I Might Be
“How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.”
“How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light”
“How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?”
Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.”
Source: Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.”
“How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.”
“How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!”
“How many minutes of my life have I wasted staring at the microwave waiting for my plate to get hot while my food stays refrigerated? To save time, and add potentially years to my life, I've decided that I do like cold pizza. I learned that from my ducks, as they LOVE cold pizza.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“How many mistakes can one life survive?”
“How many mistakes have we made, how many of our choices have led to unnecessary suffering, so that we could earn our wisdom?”
“How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.”
“How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.”
Source: Sexual Personae
“How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)”
Source: Unleash The Night