H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How many times do I have to tell you, Amelia? Men are like little woodland creatures. You have to lure them to you with tiny breadcrumbs and soft words of encouragement. You cannot simply whip out a rock and conk them over the head with it.”
Source: Princess in Pink
“How many times do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
So many times do I love again.”
“How many times do I need to say it? I. Don't. Need. Protection.”
Source: Web of Deceit
“How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?”
“How many times do we have to repeat a failed strategy before it dawns on us that it’s a failed strategy? The answer, I think, depends on the size of our ego and the depth of our arrogance.”
“How many times do we hear: 'Come on, you Christians, be a little bit more normal, like other people, be reasonable!' This is real snake charmer's talk: 'Come on, just be like this, okay? A little bit more normal, don't be so rigid ...' But behind it is this: 'Don't come here with your stories, that God became man!' The Incarnation of the Word, that is the scandal behind all of this! We can do all the social work we want, and they will say: 'How great the Church is, it does such good social work." But if we say that we are doing it because those people are the flesh of Christ, then comes the scandal. And that is the truth, that is the revelation of Jesus: that presence of Jesus incarnate.”
Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday
“How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.”
Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life
“How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake.”
Source: The Four Arguments
“How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays thousands of times for every mistake they make.”
“How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.”
“How many times do we prepare for a destination that doesn’t exist because we fear the ones that do and thereby miss both?”
“How many times do we take credit for the work of our own hands, believing we are working harder and smarter than everyone else, and that somehow we deserve the success we have achieved? Like Nebuchadnezzar, I have basked in my own success and declared my perceived value with only a mere hat-tip to the Creator of it all. I've been full of myself, full of my pride. And like King Nebuchadnezzar, I have stood on the brink of disaster without a worry in the world. "While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, 'King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: sovereignty has been removed from you'" (Daniel 4:31). The word sovereignty here means the ability to rule the kingdom. The verse is startling. While the boastful words are still in the kings mouth, God takes Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom away from him. In an instant . Wow! Most of my failures have taken some time for the consequences to kick in, but I wonder if there was an instant, while the words were still in my mouth, when the Father determined--at that very moment--so strip me of my kingdom. Perhaps you have witnessed (or experienced) a similar kingdom-stripping.”
Source: Messed Up Men of the Bible
“How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?”
“How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.”
“How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?”
Source: Cloudwish
“How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?”
“How many times does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?”
Source: King's Cage
“How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.”
“How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little excesses in which we indulge, which do no more than metamorphose, in the course of a year, a dozen creatures into clods of earth.”
Source: The 120 Days of Sodom
“How many times had he driven through this place? How many times had he turned away from the unease he felt at seeing these wan, starving people in their shabby tents, telling himself there was nothing he could do, that he was just one person in a larger system, the same way he’d watched Ferguson and Standing Rock and thought, Well, what can I do?”
Source: Manhunt
“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown
back in my face?
Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful. Much,
much more painful than the others.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“How many times had it been made clear to Fin that he was alone in this world? That no one else could help him, care for him, be there for him? Every night on the edge of sleep, he closed his yes and thought about finding his mother or learning where he came from or coming downstairs and having the Parsnickles pick him up and spin him around and treat him like a normal kid in a normal family.
This despair was nothing new. Every single day, he faced the fear that he would be this way forever and nothing would change, and every single day he beat that fear. He'd bitten down sadness before. He would do it again. Every single day, until he did find his mother, and then he would be a normal kid. He had to be.”
Source: The Map to Everywhere
“How many times had she wanted to have this conversation? How many times had she rehearsed all the things she wanted to say to him?”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?”
“How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!”
“How many times has it occurred to us that, among others, life is also a bundle of puzzles? A series of questions, that is.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?”
“How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.”
“How many times have an author come to me to say that I had told them so? Many. Choose to listen to or not the advice gained from experience and wisdom at your own peril. You might save yourself a lot of time and grief. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Being Strong for the Long Tail”
“How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."”
“How many times have I created to destroy?”
“How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?”
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories that hover on the border. There are all sorts of phantasmagoria that inhabit that realm. The nightmares of a lonely child. Fairy tales appropriated by a mind hungry for a story. The fantasies of an imaginative little girl anxious to explain to herself the inexplicable. Whatever story I may have discovered on the frontier of forgetting, I do not pretend to myself that is the truth.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.”
“How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“How many times have I photographed this glorious seascape? . . . The late-afternoon rusted tones of the Saudi Arabian mountains on the opposite side of the Red Sea; the view from the Devil’s Head, which is eternally splashed by crashing waves. Like an arrow pointed toward Saudi Arabia’s unexplored secrets, the cliff stands erect just before me.”
Source: While the Sands Whisper
“How many times have I told them that I’m enjoying life and finally taking my time? While in reality, it’s actually time that’s taking me, bit by bit, like the cruel tide gnawing at the cliffside. Retirement, my ass! More like a retreat from life!”
Source: L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
“How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean." Charlie to Beth”
Source: The Switch
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
“How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.”
“How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys!”
“How many times have I told you, Magnus? Behave professionaly in a professional setting. Which means no being rude to Nephilim, and also no getting attached to Nephilim." "I never get attached to Nephilim!" Magnus protested. Ragnor coughed, and in the midst of the cough said something that sounded like "blerondale." "Well," said Magnus. "Hardly ever.”
“How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out?" - C.V. Dreesman, The Marksmith”
“How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even one's own parents: if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation?”
“How many times have people said to me, "I think those pants are incredible, but I could never wear them." Well, why not? What's so different about these pants? I wear very classic things, but maybe with a little change here or there.”
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
“How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They sit in company headquarters or legislative offices, far from their prisons or labor camps, and craft stories that soothe their consciences. They convince themselves, with remarkable ease, that they are in the business of punishment because it makes the world better, not because it makes them rich.”
Source: American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
“How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?”
Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters
“How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?”