H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.”
Source: The Lacuna
“How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259”
“How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their meetings were a source of boredom and irritation. Distracted once at the thought of a month's separation they were able now to look forward with equanimity to being parted for years.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“How strange we humans were. We built a barbed wire fence between ourselves and turned away from the suffering of others, but we forgot the immunity to pain was delusional. For though salt and sugar we might be, we all had blood in the veins and a heart in the chest, and we all died when hit by a bomb.”
Source: The Last Rose of Shanghai
“How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.”
“How strange women are.”
“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing”
“How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.”
“How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.”
“How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck
“How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777
“How strong and beautiful every word what she writes! like blue-roses falling from the sky ..”
“How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?”
Source: Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
“How strong sometimes is weakness!”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“How strongly determined we remain not to fall if we are walking on a treacherous narrow path surrounded by an ocean? There we do not have to keep reinforcing our decision not to fall. In that situation, once the decision is made, then you remain constantly aware!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“How stupid a man has to become to ask her if she's a virgin on a first date?”
“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
“How stupid that all I have to do
is grow two squishy lumps and suddenly
I'm man's best friend”
Source: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
“How stupid, that someone so short could have such a presence.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“How stupid you are child! He meant you of course.
Did he? And Jo opened her eyes as if the thought had never occurred to her before.”
Source: Little Women
“How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!”
“How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!”
Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers
“How sublime Upon a time-blanchd cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.”
Source: A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell
“How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.”
“How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.”
“How subtly he made off with all the power, and how easily I gifted it to him. It still gives me a shot of shame, even though intellectually I know I did nothing wrong".”
Source: Tell Me Your Lies
“How success changes the opinion of men!”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“How suicidal happiness can be!”
Source: The castle
“How Sunday into Monday melts!”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.”
Source: Mark Twain's notebook
“How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.”
Source: Althea & Oliver
“How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.”
“How sure are you that it is your decision? You’re conditioned to think you need to have a child to be happy. But my dear, what if you don’t? Would you feel incomplete?”
Source: Feminomaniacs
“How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.”
“How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!”
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
Source: Suttree
“How surely gravity's law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing---
each stone, blossom, child---
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
So like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God's heart;
they have never left him.
This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.”
“How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.”
“How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.”
“How sweet and sacred idleness is!”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.”