H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How Shesheshen wanted one of the hunters to stop this. For one of them to stand up for common sense, if not for the rights of a young damsel. A damsel who had offered them a perfectly good reason to get lost for a few weeks.
But humans never stood up for the right thing. They stood around feeling uncomfortable, and later pretended that feeling uncomfortable meant they were virtuous. Now Malik stood to one side, only slightly obstructing Wulfyre's path. Surely he'd feel awful about this tomorrow when he was spending his blood money, before running of with his partner to the next kill.
And they called her monstrous.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.”
Source: Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew
“How short it seemed, that lifetime of waiting--
this red star blazing over the bay
was all the light of his childhood
that had followed him here.
[from 'The End of the World. I. Terra Nova']”
Source: The First Four Books of Poems
“How short life is for fools.”
Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“How short life would be if certain unpleasant moments didn't make it feel endless!”
Source: Thus Were Their Faces
“How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“How short the happy moments seem and how endless the sad ones.”
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.”
Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays
“How should I kill in me the various forms of madness and be at the same time tender and lucid, creative and patient, and survive?”
Source: With My Dog Eyes
“How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?”
“How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming "Off with her head! Off with--"
"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“How should I know?!”
“Well, you’re the expert!”
“Why, just cause I’m a girl I’m supposed to know every single freaking thing about babies?!” I kicked a fallen bottle of ketchup down the aisle. “I’M NOT HER MOM! I’M NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO BE A MOM!”
Source: Mortal Tether
“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.”
“How should I remember the child's name? It was fifteen, sixteen years ago and I have never liked babies; nasty creatures, leak at both ends and have no respect for ceramics.”
Source: Mortal Engines
“How should one live? Live Welcoming to all.”
“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”
“how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?”
Source: Selected poems
“How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don't think it's going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what's right in psychology.”
“How should they answer?”
“How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?”
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?”
Source: Ill Fares the Land
“How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.”
“How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.”
“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”
“How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ...I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.”
“How should we respond when we find the Word perplexing or dry or boring or unappealing? We keep eating. We receive nourishment. We keep listening and learning and taking our daily bread.”
Source: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.”
Source: Collected Poems 1947-1997
“How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!”
Source: The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books
“How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!”
“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.”
“How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.”
Source: The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
“How silent are the winds!”
“How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.”
Source: The lives of the heart
“How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.”
Source: Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks
“How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?”
Source: The Painted Veil
“how silly of me
to forget that I am
the love of my life”
Source: The Fall, The Rise
“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.”
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”
“How simple and fragile life is.”
“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.”
“How simple, if you knew the consequences, to avoid the dumb mistakes you make in life.”
Source: Twice
“How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.”
Source: Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
“How simple it is to scoop the world, even if a flock of other journalists have the same facts and the same opportunities,” [Ross] told Flanner.”
Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.”
Source: Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easy Read Comfort Edition