H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
“How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”
“How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.”
“How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.”
Source: Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter
“How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken”
Source: Clash of the Titans [Look-in Film Special]
“How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?”
“How may we describe the general outlines of nationalist development, seen as 'general historical process'? Here, by far the most important point is that nationalism is as a whole quite incomprehensible outside the context of that process's uneven development. The subjective point of nationalist ideology is, of course, always the suggestion that one nationality is as good as another. But the real point has always lain in the objective fact that, manifestly, one nationality has never been even remotely as good as as, or equal to, the others which figure in its world view. Indeed, the purpose of the subjecivity (nationalist myths) can never be anything but protest against the brutal fact: it is mobilisation against the unpalatable, humanly unacceptable, truth of grossly uneven development.”
Source: The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism
“How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.”
“How meanly and miserably we live for the most part! We escape fate continually by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is. We are practically desperate. What kind of gift is life unless we have spirits to enjoy it and taste its true flavor?”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.”
Source: First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar
“How memories desert us. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to return to old days. Memories cling to the dreams never dreamed. Wasted time and that's all I did, day after day, year after year, and now it was all an instant to me.”
“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.”
“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might I overlook his essence that still is in my garments?
Despite everything, I still hear you saying that you love me. Though I know you don't.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“how might I
recognize myself
as medicine
instead of messiness?”
Source: Show Us Your Fire
“How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?”
“How might language separate us or draw us together? If our words center around grasping, creating, using, knowing, efficiency, step-by-step procedures, problem-solving, interventions, tools, and a sense of good-better-best (an ever-upward trend), we are likely attending mostly from a left hemisphere that is operating more or less autonomously, without support from the right's perspective. There is often a sense of judgement and certainty, along with an intent to guide, shape or control another that arises from and is reflected in this way of speaking. Because the left hemisphere has a tendency toward either/or, good/bad distinctions, there is often the sense of preference or wanting to get rid of something in favor of something else (ie: getting rid of sadness in favor of happiness or peace).”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?”
“How might people in some other village or town rise up each morning? What does being alive mean to them? It isn't likely that they wake up every day expecting to die. They likely want to live at least as much as we do, and they want this for each other too. Experience has taught them not that life is cruel, random, arbitrary, unjust. Experience has taught them that life is unlikely, everything considered. Waking up each day, and having your children do so, is not written in the stars, not an entitlement, far from inevitable. It is not even the fair trade meritocratic consequence of being careful and living right. For all that, waking up each day is a gift. It is a gift that is not reward for playing by the rules. It is a gift from the Gods, giving each living person the capacity not just to go on, but to go on as if he or she has been gifted, to go on in gratitude and wonder that all the things of the world that keep them alive have continued while they slept. Wonder, awe, and a feeling of being on the receiving end for now of something mysteriously good: These are antidotes to depression.”
Source: Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
“How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.”
Source: Magic in the Backyard
“How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.”
Source: Havah: A Novel
“How mindful are we about self-conversations?”
Source: Quantraz
“How minute I am. I am nothing. I am just a person in a building, in a street, in a city, in a state, in a country, in a continent, on a planet, of a solar system, of a galaxy, of a Milky Way, of a cluster, of a universe of multiverses. I am nothing. How minute I am.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!”
“How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.”
“How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired.”
Source: Damned
“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.”
Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality
“How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.”
“How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.”
“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
“How much above zero still produces zero is not known.”
Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“how much am I willing to pay out of pocket for this body”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition
“How much are we allowed to change our bodies while still being body positive? Does that amount of change decrease if we call ourselves part of the fat acceptance movement? Does the community get to vote you out if you go over a line? Where is the line? Does a group of people on a social media platform count as a community?”
Source: Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass
“How much are we concerned about the conservation of our emotional energy which gets burnt out 100 times a day for petty reasons?”
Source: Quantraz
“How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?”
“How much
are you enjoying yourself,
tiger moth?”
“How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?”
“How much are you worth?
I have no idea. How much do you want?
Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Oh, my, yes.
Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!”
“How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me."”
“How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
Source: Flying Visits
“How much beauty you've missed. Because it really is beautiful: this future you prayed we would never get the chance to see. I think you'd like it if you gave it a chance. But that's something I've learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed”
Source: Yesteryear
“How much beer is in German intelligence?”
Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist
“How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck”
Source: Post Captain
“How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.”
Source: The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, from the Most Recent Sources of Information; and Embodying the Chief Results, Historical and Ethnographical, which Have Been Obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hieroglyphical Discovery
“How much better can life get than this? So much better!”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.”