H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How many tears does your water bottle in life hold?”
“How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!”
Source: The Works of Archimedes
“How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.”
“How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.”
Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings
“How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him! You want to see His clothing. He gives Himself to you, not just to be seen but to be touched, to be eaten, to be received within .... Let all of you be ardent, fervent, enthusiastic. If the Jews stood, shoes on, staff in hand, and eating in haste, how much more vigilant should you be. They were about to go to Palestine; ... you are about to go to heaven.”
“How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.”
“How many things are there which I do not want.”
“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”
Source: Comedies of Terence
“How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”
“How many things can I do without?”
Source: Momentos
“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
“How many things I can do without!”
“How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.”
“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”
“How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don’t know it.”
“How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?”
“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”
“How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?”
Source: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
“How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.”
“How many thousands
of stories like yours
have been told
and forgotten how many
stories of lovingly durable nurses
of hospital sheets of IV tubes
dripping saline and morphine
How many stories of drugs
that would haul you
along in their wake for a while
but finally
let you sink”
Source: 13th Balloon
“How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”
“How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls”
Source: The 120 Days of Sodom
“How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to puck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls.”
Source: The 120 Days of Sodom
“How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?”
“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?”
Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?”
“How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.”
“How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”
Source: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
“How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.”
“How many times can you pull off the same disappearing act?”
“How many times can you say I love you?" He whispered the words softly so that only she could hear them. "A lifetime isn't enough.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.”
“How many times can your heat mend
until it's broken beyond repair?
--Deborah King”
“How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure?
Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“How many times did Jesus pray or how many times did he bow in private before God?”
“How many times did she have to say goodbye?”
“How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?”
Source: Dispatches
“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.”
Source: Tectonics of Asia
“How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.”
“How many times did we pass each other before we met? If only I’d known…. I would have searched for you endlessly.
If only I’d found you before it was already too late.”
“How many times do I gotta flush before you go away, Derby?”
Source: Edge of Instinct
“How many times do I have to repeat myself? You don't get to touch my woman.”
Source: Broken Blood
“How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.”
“How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'”