H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?”
“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?”
“How many planets with life do you think there are? Would you like to live in all of them? Maybe, yes, or maybe, not! For those who don’t believe in alien life or don’t want to believe, or assume that aliens are exaggerated states of being that no human can comprehend, life on earth makes more sense to them. They see the meaning of their life in getting a good salary, a job others can respect, a nice colorful desk with a cheese cake waiting for them on top. And for those who believe, it often becomes a necessity more than a willingness. I.e, they want to escape earth, not realizing that alien life won’t be that different. Consciousness finds itself in both the similarities and the differences.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“How many poems must you write to convince yourself you have a family? Everyone leaves and you end up the stranger.”
Source: If They Come for Us
“How many Praesi does it take to change a lantern’s wick?
A legion to conquer all the candlemakers, a High Lord to sell the wicks down south and then we’re taxed for being in the dark.”
– Overheard in a Laure tavern”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.”
Source: New Letters and Memorials
“How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?”
“How many prison years in the years since Christ!”
“How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.”
“How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting”
“How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!”
“How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.”
“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many of the victims—already, as Ilse Heinrich said, half dead—did not survive long enough after the war to talk about it.
While many older Soviet women were reluctant to talk of the rape, younger survivors feel less restraint today. Nadia Vasilyeva was one of the Red Army nurses who were cornered by the Germans on the cliffs of the Crimea. Three years later in Neustrelitz, northwest of Ravensbrück, she and scores of other Red Army women were cornered again, this time by their own Soviet liberators intent on mass rape. Other women make no excuses for the Soviet rapists. ‘They were demanding payment for liberation,’ said Ilena Barsukova. ‘The Germans never raped the prisoners because we were Russian swine, but our own soldiers raped us. We were disgusted that they behaved like this. Stalin had said that no soldiers should be taken prisoner, so they felt they could treat us like dirt.’
Like the Russians, Polish survivors were also reluctant for many years to talk of Red Army rape. ‘We were terrified by our Russian liberators,’ said Krystyna Zając. ‘But we could not talk about it later because of the communists who had by then taken over in Poland.’ Nevertheless, Poles, Yugoslavs, Czechs and French survivors all left accounts of being raped as soon as they reached the Soviet lines. They talked of being ‘hunted down’, ‘captured’ or ‘cornered’ and then raped.
In her memoirs Wanda Wojtasik, one of the rabbits, says it was impossible to encounter a single Russian without being raped. As she, Krysia and their Lublin friends tried to head east towards their home, they were attacked at every turn. Sometimes the approach would begin with romantic overtures from ‘handsome men’, but these approaches soon degenerated into harassment and then rape. Wanda did not say she was raped herself, but describes episodes where soldiers pounced on friends, or attacked them in houses where they sheltered, or dragged women off behind trees, who then reappeared sobbing and screaming. ‘After a while we never accepted lifts and didn’t dare go near any villages, and when we slept someone always stood watch.”
Source: Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
“How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.”
“How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.”
“How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.”
“How many relationships would be better if they were born out of something genuine rather than merely a petty desire? Divorce would drop because people would know why they started doing something in the first place. Teen pregnancy would almost be eradicated because for the first time we wouldn’t need to simply succumb to our desires and cravings pushed onto us from the media and society in general. Prostitutes would be searching for redundancy packages and brothel owners for new careers, and the whole shallow and superficial nature of sex would be under the spotlight.”
Source: Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?”
“How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?”
“How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?”
“How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.”
“How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned?”
“How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.”
“How many roads must a man walk down?”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“How many rooms are there in the chambers of your heart? How many rooms full of memories can you describe like the one I’m going to tell you about. You know how you left him don’t you? The man you were so in love with once. Bing Cherry Silk. Another man left those for you didn’t he? And you put them on, just like I did.”
Source: Bing Cherry Silk
“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”
“How many secrets does it take before it's all a lie?”
•pg.98 - Kovit”
Source: Only Ashes Remain
“How many secrets you can save?
How many tears you can endure?
How many fakes smiles can give?
When all you want is tell the truth,
shed all tears saved
and stop giving false smiles.”
“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.”
“How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?”
“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”
Source: Beneath the Lion's Gaze
“How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?”
“How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
Depends how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live 'em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give 'em.”
― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
“How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.”
Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
“How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it's a hardware problem.”
Source: Deep Dark
“How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!”
“How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?”
Source: Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects: Being the Select Works of Thomas Watson
“How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!”
“How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.”
Source: Solo
“How many stories are there that have been lived, but will never be told? Far too many for me to squander the one that I’m living.”
“How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!”
“How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?”
Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition
“How many subscribers do you have left, anyway? Isn't print dying? How long until it's actually dead and you're out of a job?”
Source: Best Served Hot
“How many summer days I missed out on - it's too many to count. I hate that I still care more about how other people perceive my body, rather than how I feel about my body. I want so desperately to be someone who is unapologetic, who loves herself, who doesn't have to analyze every moment.
I want to be be bold, adventurous - to say yes to life.”
Source: Main Character Energy
“How many summers had I been alive? The obvious answer was as many summers as my age; but for some reason I felt the presence of another number, a different, realer number somewhere out there in the world. I thought about this as I gazed into the summer glare.”
Source: Breasts and Eggs