H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.”
“How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?”
“How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.”
“How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.”
“How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.”
“How would we get corporate sponsorship if we were just a bunch of thugs?”
“How would you behave if you knew you were a God or Goddess? How would you treat yourself, how would you treat others? What kind of consciousness would you hold about your smallest actions if you knew their effects influenced the rest of creation? If your awakenings could bring joy to the multitudes? What kind of mindfulness would that inspire?”
Source: Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
“How would you behave if you were the best in the world at what you do?”
“How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.”
“How would you compete against yourself?”
“How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.”
“How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.”
“How would you describe the worst run you ever had? Precious!”
“How would you describe yourself?" asked Tumburu.
Aru consider this. And then, in a very measured voice, she said, "Kind."
Brynne snorted. "You mean sneaky."
"Uh, imaginative," said Mini, a touch defensively. "Very imaginative."
No one asked you to elaborate! Aru said through the mind link, but her sisters only laughed.
"Kinda weird," said Rudy.
Aiden glanced at her. The corner of his mouth tipped up. "Chaotic.”
Source: Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality
“How would you do what you are doing if there was no reward, no goal, no measure of Success or Failure attached to it? How would you perform if you only focused on doing something for the joy of doing it? When you live Life, working only for joy, then neither Success nor Failure can hold you hostage. Of course, please demand a premium for your service or offering in the commercial market, but please don’t fall into the trap of valuing what you do only on economic or material parameters. When you enjoy the journey and realize that it is the only reward, you will never be keyed up over the outcomes. This is the way to a perennial state of Happiness, to Bliss!”
“How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?”
“How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.”
“How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?”
Source: The Absolute Sandman
“How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked. Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?" "He'd love to!" Gary said. Tristan shot him a look, "Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her.”
Source: Kissed by an Angel
“How would you feel if someone harms you?
Every creature also feels the same way, the way you feel.
Suffers the same way, the way you suffer.
Never harm anyone or any creature.”
“How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.”
“How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?”
“How would you have done things differently if you were not afraid?”
“How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.”
“How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.”
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.”
Source: The Road
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”
Source: The Road
“How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.”
“How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?”
“How would you learn right if you knew not wrong?
How would you choose good if you knew not evil? How would you recognise the light if there were no darkness? How would you move if there were no resistance?”
Source: Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899
“How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?”
“How would you like it if someone told you to cut yourself open and rearrange your body parts? That then you could be normal?”
Source: Skinny
“How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?”
“How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?”
“How would you like to feel the way she looks?”
“How would you like to find out how good my right is?”
“How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?”
“How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.”
Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
“How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?”
“How would you like to make money in real estate?”
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.”
“How would you like your eggs?" I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?”
Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light
“How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic sort of standard they're trying to hold [Donald Trump] to.”
“How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?”
Source: Collected Poems
“How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?”
Source: The 5th Wave
“How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line—how would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined—well, a good poem.”
Source: The Railwayman's Wife
“How would you take care of it?” I asked. He shrugged. “I know some ghouls. I make a couple calls, the guys come over for dinner, problem solved.” “They can put away nine whole giants? There’s that many ghouls in town?” “Probably not,” Leif admitted. “But whatever they do not eat tonight, they’ll take the rest to go.” I stared at him in disbelief. “You mean like a doggie bag?” The vampire nodded with a thin trace of a smile. “They have a refrigerated truck, Atticus. These are practical guys.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“How would your life be different if...you began each day by thanking someone who has helped you? Let today be the day...You make it a point to show your gratitude to others. Send a letter or card, make a call, send a text or email, tell them in person...do whatever you have to do to let them know you appreciate them.”
Source: The Power of One
“How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.”
Source: The Power of One