H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”
“how useless laws are, and how omnipotent morals are”
“How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.”
“How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.”
“How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.”
“How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.”
“How vain it seems to write, when one knows how to feel-- how much more near and dear to sit beside you, talk with you, hear the tones of your voice...Give me strength, Susie, write me of hope and love, and of hearts that endure...”
Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.”
“How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.”
“How vain, without the merit, is the name.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.”
“How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.”
“How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.”
Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
“How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author
“How vast a memory has Love!”
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“How vast, how extensive
the boundary of your company, and
the magnificence of your affection.”
“How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.”
“How vast is my London! How strange my native place!”
Source: Be My Wolff
“How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.”
“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.”
Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets
“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”
“How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris”
Source: Arabella
“How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.”
“How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.”
Source: The Scottish companion
“How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!”
“How very glad I am that the boy ran into my shop! See how it ends well! I play my part! Everyone has a part and a destiny, that's my perspective.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“How very hard it is to be a Christian!”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.”
“How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'
I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.”
Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman’s lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow.
Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no — they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!”
“How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.”
Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek
“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.”
“How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!”
Source: Romance and Reality
“How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.”
“How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts”
“How very wet this water is.”
Source: Adventures in Oz
“How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!”
“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”
“How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!”
“How virtuous can you be in this gloomy, deceitful world? I find it hard to answer the question, but I tell you this, I want to be a man of complete integrity, who will always stick to his principles and never settle for anything less.”
Source: Bits of Heaven
“How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.”
“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.”
Source: Silence
“How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?”
Source: The Forgotten Garden