H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How wonderful life is while you're in the world”
“How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.”
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
“How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.”
Source: how to save your own life
“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”
Source: Gone with the wind
“How wonderful, to walk half drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone's arm around me.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“How wonderful, truly, to have a friend whose silence you adored.”
Source: Katabasis
“How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.”
“How wonderful would it be if trust, or even love, might be possible between any of us — or even all of us. I mean, if we let ourselves believe such a thing is possible.”
“How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.”
“How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it”
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!”
Source: Mansfield Park
“How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.”
Source: Tuesdays at the Castle
“How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.”
Source: Master & Commander
“How wondrous familiar is a fool!”
“How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.”
“How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.”
“How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.”
Source: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God
“How would a day or a life full of peace, quietude, serenity, book, music, reading, love and giving would feel like? You want to experience that then stay LOVE in the present moment.”
“How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?”
Source: The Sharing Moon
“How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.”
“How would he protect her, as weak and wounded as he was? If the two armies were about to shell the town again, he had to find a safe place for her to be. And if the Confederates gained Gettysburg itself, they would probably take him as a prisoner. He needed to make sure that Arabella had a place of safety...”
Source: The Letter
“How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?”
“How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others”
Source: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“How would I define my work Emotional Roller Coaster?
"It is not just a book — it is a living heartbeat.
A hybrid memoir, where poetry meets confession,
where every wound becomes voice,
and every silence learns how to sing.
It is the testimony of a soul that has fallen, burned,
and yet has risen again —
stitched together with faith, with scars, and with truth.”
“How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?”
Source: The Joke
“How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn’t I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?
Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. “.”
Source: Happy Valentine's Slay, Children of Hamlin, Tooth & Nail & Fairy Tale, Ember in the Wind, Jar of Hearts, Welcome to Sorrow
“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit.”
Source: The Spinning Heart
“How would I know which one I was?”
“How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.”
“How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.”
“How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?”
Source: Moving Target
“How would I overlook the name Moody? Why, that's like overlooking Hanover, or—or Plantagenet.'
The woman laughed. 'I would hardly compare Adrian Moody to a royal line!”
Source: The Luminaries
“How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I`m a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.”
“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“How would it be.. if all my hate disappeared like my youth, if after all this time his very hatred of me turned out to be something gentle, some kind of love.”
Source: 52 Men
“How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?”
“How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
“How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to find it again?”
“What’s the good of that?” said Rabbit.
“Well,” said Pooh, “we keep looking for Home and not finding it, so I thought that if we looked for this Pit, we’d be sure not to find it, which would be a Good Thing, because then we might find something that we weren’t looking for, which might be just what we were looking for, really.”
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit.
“No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it on the way.”
“How would it be," she asked them coldly as they left the classroom [Prof Binns, History subject], "if I refused to lend you my notes this year?"
"We'd fail our O.W.L.s," said Ron. "If you want that on your conscience, Hermoine..."
"Well, you'd deserve it," she snapped. "You don't even try to listen to him, do you?"
"We do try," said Ron. "We just haven't got your brains or your concentration -- you're just cleverer than we are -- is it nice to rub it in?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.”
Source: I and Thou
“How would my Future Self feel, and what would they do [with my time], if the [20 years in the future version of me] could come back and live my life for the rest of today?”
Source: Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
“How would reality calculate the non-simplest answer without first calculating the simplest answer. Having calculated the simplest answer why would it then dismiss it? What would reality’s reason be for dismissing the simplest answer? No such reason is possible or conceivable. How would reality go about calculating the non-simplest answer, given that there are infinite of them? It is literally impossible for reality to calculate and implement anything other than the simplest answer. That is 100% guaranteed, and you are utterly irrational and illogical if you contend otherwise.”
Source: One Right Answer, Infinite Wrong Answers: Why Humanity Is Addicted to Being Wrong
“How would she find her herd? How would she find you?”
Source: Stolen
“How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!”