H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.”
“How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.”
Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James
“How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.”
“how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp”
Source: Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition
“How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.”
Source: The Last Shift: Poems
“How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.”
“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”
Source: The Moon and More
“How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“How well a nation spends their time is a pointer to her growth and development”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”
“How well can we really know another person? People can be in your lives for years –– they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.”
Source: The Summer We Read Gatsby
“How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?”
“How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, especially the elders. The grandparents and the aunts and uncles who used to give you shiny new quarters and unvarnished advice. How much do you really know about their lives. Perhaps you've heard that they served in a war, or lived for a time in a log cabin, or arrived in this country speaking little or no English. Maybe they survived the Holocaust or the Dust Bowl. How were they shaped by the Depression or the Cold War, or the stutter-step march towards integration in their own community? What were they like before they married or took on mortgages and assumed all the worries that attend the feeding, clothing, and education of their children? If you don't already know the answers, the people who raised you will most likely remain a mystery, unless you take the bold step and say: Tell me more about yourself.”
“How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”
“How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.”
“How well he's read, to reason against reading!”
“How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.”
“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”
Source: MAN IN BLACK
“How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!”
“How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.”
“How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.”
“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”
“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed that uncomfortable partition which is my person! Style, taste, individual philosophy, subjectivity, cultural background, real experience, psychology, talent, tricks of the trade: all the elements that make what I write recognizable as mine seem to me a cage that restricts my possibilities. If I were only a hand, a severed hand that grasps a pen and writes...who would move this hand? The anonymous throng? The spirit of the times? The collective unconscious? I do not know.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“How well I would write if I were not here!”
“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”
Source: Little Bee
“How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you?”
“How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.”
“How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.”
“How well they all knew each other now, he thought. In twelve weeks James felt he had come to know more about these three men than any of the so-called friends he'd known for twenty years. For the first time he understood why his father continually referred back to friendships formed during the war with men he normally would never have met. He realised how much he was going to miss Stephen when he returned to America. Success was, in fact, going to split them up.”
Source: Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
“How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.”
“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.”
“How well we have learned to let go”
“How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.”
“How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.”
Source: The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises
“How well you run determines whether or not you will win or lose.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“How well you spend your time daily is a pointer to your greatness as an individual”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.”
“How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?”
“How were we so lucky? Two people lost in a world only to find solace and companionship in someone just as fractured as they are. I think destiny has played a hand in our union.”
Source: Becoming Countess Dumont
“How were you able to complete this dish?"
"Easy! I used honey.
I rubbed it on the meat before we cooked it...
... and I added it into the seasonings afterward too."
I see! Honey is rich in proteinase, an enzyme that breaks down proteins. By using it as a rub on the tough cut of beef...
... he was able to tenderize it in a short period of time!
"But how did you know honey would do that?"
"When I was little, I read in a cookbook that pineapple juice could tenderize meats. But we don't often get the chance to buy whole pineapples.
So I experimented with stuff to see if anything else could do the same thing.
Of all of them, honey keeps the best and it's by far the easiest to use!”
Source: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 1
“How were you naive enough to think you and Yash had a chance?" Naina said.
"Because truth has to..."
"... count for something," Yash and India said together.
India spun toward him. And there it was, the endless peace of her gaze. Breath whooshed out of him, weight lifted off his shoulders.
"Because love has to count for something." He took a step closer, and her body sagged, mirroring all the relief he was feeling. "I breathe differently when she's around. I feel... I feel alive in ways I never have.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!”
“How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.”
Source: LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more
“How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition
“How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.”
“How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.”
“How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind