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 have we damned each other now?"
"Not nearly enough.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“How many times have we encountered a person that states, “can I ask a question,” and proceeds to ask the question before you can respond. In these cases, they have given us a choice and then take it away. What they are really doing here, is making a statement, and not asking you to decide.”
“How many times have we heard an African official or a “black authority” saying, “We blacks, we are cursed, it is as if we were destined to remain inferior, retarded, to remain Negroes! Yes, we are cursed, we will never develop as the Asians or the whites do, we are not capable, mentally or intellectually, we are condemned to remain Negroes forever, always behind the others, cursed”! I have heard similar words coming from the mouth of ministers, ambassadors, African diplomats, some expressing themselves in front of their young children, who drank their words.”
Source: White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!
“How many times have we set the stage for our greatest defeats? And how many times did victory elude us because we chose to deny that fact?”
“How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthless?”
Too many times.”
Source: The Young Elites
“How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?”
“How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.”
“How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?”
“How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!"”
“How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.”
“How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.”
“How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics.”
“How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when they close their eyes at night.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“How many times have you tried to forget
that person you promised to love forever?”
“How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.”
“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?
Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”
Source: Only Forward
“How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.”
“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak reveals of my new circumstances? Or is that every day of my life?”
Source: Hiddensee
“How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.”
Source: How We Are Hungry
“How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”
“How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.”
“How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?”
“How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?”
Source: To Kiss a Texan
“How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.”
“How many times should you try before you give up? If you want something bad enough, you will keep trying until. Until what? Until you succeed.”
“How many times, since she was just a child, had her and Mum hung clothes together here as Mum told her stories? Some real, some pretend, some Helen couldn’t quite tell the difference between. For decades Mum insisted that as a child a true mermaid had been her friend. The mergirl had gotten injured by a fallen rock near Mum’s home, and she claimed to have helped the creature back to health. When Helen was small she accepted the tale as truth, but when she grew and dropped her belief in other fairy tales Mum would insist this was different.
“Her tail felt smooth when I would slide my fingers down it, but the scales were sharp if I slid my palm up. I don’t have to pretend it’s true or convince you. I held magic in my hands. It wasn’t the first time, but it was the first time I realized I had.”
“But there’s no such thing as mermaids and magic,” Helen had refuted once.
Mum had lowered herself to meet Helen’s eyes. “Oh, there’s magic in this world. Do you think that just because you can explain something that makes it not magic anymore? How a wildflower grows is magic. The first snow of winter? Absolutely. Stand on any theater’s stage and you can’t deny it’s there. Sit on any shore and you’ll always feel it.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!”
“How many times were you born, after your birth date ... And how many times, have you died?”
“How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?”
Source: A Far Wilder Magic
“How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?”
“How many times will you get knocked down and get back up?”
“how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?”
Source: My Beloved World
“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?”
Source: Life After Life
“How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?”
Source: Plain Truth
“How many times you failed will not be counted, but the time you stood up and fought back will be counted.”
“How many times you stop on your pathway through life depends on the footwear that you wear.”
“How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.”
“How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.”
Source: THE SHINING
“How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”
“How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.”
Source: Meditations
“How many troops do we embark?' inquired Philip.
'Two hundred and forty-five rank and file, and six officers. Poor fellows! There are but few of them will ever return; nay, more than one-half will not see another birthday. It is a dreadful climate. I have landed three hundred men at that horrid hole, and in six months, even before I had sailed, there were not one hundred left alive.'
'It is almost murder to send them there,' observed Philip.
'Pshaw! They must die somewhere, and if they die a little sooner, what matter? Life is a commodity to be bought and sold like any other. We send out so much manufactured goods and so much money to barter for Indian commodities. We also send out so much life, and it gives a good return to the Company.'
'But not to the poor soldiers, I am afraid.'
'No; the Company buy it cheap and sell it dear,' replied the captain, who walked forward.
True, thought Philip, they do purchase human life cheap, and make a rare profit of it, for without these poor fellows how could they hold their possessions in spite of native and foreign enemies? For what a paltry and cheap annuity do these men sell their lives? For what a miserable pittance do they dare all the horrors of a most deadly climate, without a chance, a hope of return to their native land, where they might happily repair their exhausted energies, and take a new lease of life!”
Source: The Phantom Ship
“How many true friends can you say you truly have? Success can be measured by this number alone.”
“How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”
“How many types of ‘my-ness’ (mamata) are there?! There is my-ness in each & every hair. If a single hair is pulled out, he will become upset that my hair was pulled.”
“How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice
“How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.”
“How many unions had this cliffside seen? How many fae had stood here with gods above and promises in their hearts? How many found joy — and how many simply pretended, hiding broken dreams deep in their souls to preserve the illusion of a happy marriage?”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.”
“How many User Journeys can your System afford?”