H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How much of our independence is and has always been
the exploitation of others,
the abuse of others?
Today I'm in awe of
how women of color are leading the way
to not accepting it anymore”
“How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!”
“How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?”
“How much of this nightmare might have been avoided if there was but one amongst us who could speak one word to another that was true?”
Source: Dreadwing
“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?”
Source: Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices : Pin
“How much of what passes for grief in the world is really nothing more than regret?”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“How much of what people say in politics is for the moment, meant for the moment, meant only to satisfy an emotional demand or requirement of the moment, but it is not really sincere? My view of people in politics is that most of what they say is not sincere during campaigns about other Republicans.”
“How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of the Enlightenment; they were not. So let's stop denying that reality. Rather than sitting in judgment on them from our Enlightenment perches, we ought to have them sit in judgment on us when it comes to informing us about the supernatural world. After all, what they wrote was ultimately overseen by God.”
“How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?”
“How much of you is repetition?”
“How much of your commercial brand is embedded or allowed into the corporate discourse? How aligned are the communications between the corporate, commercial and employer brands?”
Source: You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader
“How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.”
Source: Six Degrees of Separation: A Play
“How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“How much of your life...
is balanced on the unseen?
Bridie's Tomb”
Source: The Well at Winter Solstice
“How much of yourself do you know? This is a question about self-awareness. You have to know yourself before you can lead others effectively.”
“How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.”
Source: Catch-22
“How much on outward show does all depend,
If virtues from within no lustre lend!
Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest
Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.”
“How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.”
“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
“How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.”
“How much people can learn at any moment depends on how they feel at that moment about the task and their ability to do the task.”
Source: How Children Learn
“How much pleasure can you stand?”
Source: Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change
“How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.”
“How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security; for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.”
“How much power is enough power,
particularly now when data is power!
What's the point of power and data,
if they just empower criminal behavior!”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.”
“How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“HOW MUCH REALITY CAN YOU TOLERATE?
FAKE THE REST!
CREATE THE REALITY YOU WANT TO LIVE IN”
“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”
“How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?”
“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance?”
Source: Dragonstone
“How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet
“How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.”
Source: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
“How much saxophone does it take to play the blues? I’m asking because I’m trying to fill up my pool using only blues, due to the fact that my ducks will only swim in sad jazz.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“How much service have I rendered to my people?”
Source: The Gospel of the Redman
“How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!”
“How much she's learned through love
about everything, including that quadrant of self
visible only to others but exceptionally
accessed through the one who knows her best.”
“How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?”
“How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can.”
“How much should you smile during your job interview? The answer is: not too much and definitely not too little. Try practicing a smile that’s somewhere in between, even if it makes you look like you’re having a stroke. This is your best option.”
Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
“How much simpler is peace;
the untouched glass, the worn book. How much better to linger in solitude, like a single star tracing its arc through an endless sky.
Let me stay here with these unobtrusive companions.
This light, this space, this breath;
implicit, yet wholly mine.”
“How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).”
“How much sleep is needed for a man to keep himself healthy, strong, and always capable for work is a great problem; it cannot be decided without considering various incidental circumstances besides his own hereditary constitution. But sleep seems to be something that permits much latitude, and discipline or habit can do much to reduce it to its lowest terms.”
Source: The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
“How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.”