H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How much love did you put into what you did?”
“How much love you have is up to you and while it may seem complicated, it isn’t. Not really. It’s all about our conversations. By having honest, courageous, meaningful conversations with your partner, you can foster true connection and a fierce love that will withstand the test of time and grow stronger over the years.”
Source: Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time
“How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”
Source: Ricordi
“How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“How much money do you have? You have the exact amount you are willing to have.”
“How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.”
“How much money would I have to take from you so I don’t lose your respect?”
Crocker Fenway chuckled without mirth. “A bit late for that, Mr. Sportello. People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they pay anybody rent.”
“And when the first landlord decided to stiff the first renter for his security deposit, your whole fucking class lost everybody’s respect.”
Source: Inherent Vice
“How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.”
“How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?”
Source: Che ore sono?: poesie
“How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.”
“How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.”
“How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“How much more could her heart break? A lot. It could and would break a lot more. There were, contrary to science, an infinite number of atriums and ventricles.”
Source: Vera, or Faith
“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”
Source: How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.”
Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
“How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!”
“How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.”
“How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”
Source: Prose Fancies
“How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?”
“How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!”
Source: Emma
“How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.”
“How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?”
“How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.”
“How much more pain is required for you to stop bothering about everything and be free, absolutely free?”
“How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“How much more proof does anyone need to see to know that there is more to GAIN from loving each other and being good to all people -- than from hating and envying each other? When we continue to hate, we continue to LOSE. When we amplify mutual respect and LOVE, we have a lot to gain! Quite simply, there is more to gain through love than hate.”
“How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.”
“How much more straightforward it was to bear a physical illness or malady. You need not do anything but rest, and the body simply healed itself. Miseries of the mind, however, were quite another matter; they were a sticky spider's web, and Beatrice had learned that the more you struggled against them, the tighter the strands seemed to bind you.”
Source: The Winter Garden
“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“How much more will that cost on top of the surgery?"
Did it matter? She had just spent nearly four thousand dollars getting that salivary gland surgically removed. Was she going to allow her dog to die of an infection because it would cost an extra two hundred?
Bryson took a mental step back. Who in the hell was he to pass judgment? Maybe she didn't have an extra two hundred dollars. Maybe she had scraped together every cent she had for the surgery. He knew better than most what it was like to have to make tough financial choices. He'd spent the better part of his life doing it.
He took Mrs. Stewart's hand in his. "I know it's hard not to stress about the cost, but please don't. The receptionist can tell you about programs that will allow you to pay in installments so that you don't have to cover everything all at once."
The worry marring her features lessened. "Thank you again for all you did for my little Jack." She gave his hand a gentle squeeze before slipping past him and walking over to the reception area.”
Source: Pugs and Kisses
“How much must I overcome before I triumph?”
“How much new can you take without thinking of the good old times?”
“How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?”
“How much of Africa had been explored out of simple hatred?.”
“How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics.”
Source: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
“How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?”
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something”
Source: The Song Is You: A Novel
“How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God there is rain?”
“How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!”
“How much of ME is my own and how much is stamped into my blood and bone, predestined?”
Source: The Best We Could Do
“How much of my body is really me? My face is me, for sure. Anyone who looked at my face would know it was me.Even with my hair wet and drawn back it's me. But after that? If I showed myself a picture of myself from the shoulders down, would I be sure it was me? Could I identify myself that way?
I close my eyes and ask myself what my feet look like. I only kind of know. Same with my hands. I have no idea what my back looks like.
I let it define me, but I can't even define it.”
Source: Another Day
“How much of my life have I labeled as stolen, when in fact I gave it away?”
“How much of my longings are for a self that looks like other selves.”
“How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.”
Source: Myself