H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. I chose to be more brave than I was afraid and am loving my life as a result.”
“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.”
“However does he survive, being surrounded at all times by such fools?"
"One stab at a time.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.”
“However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?”
Source: Strong Poison
“However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.”
“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.”
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.”
“However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.”
“However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.”
“However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no question of arguing that this or that external origin is either probable or improbable. We do not have, and we necessarily could not have, experience of other Universes to tell us that Universes, or Universes with these particular features, are the work of Gods, or of Gods of this or that particular sort.”
Source: God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis
“However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.”
“However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.”
“However far I travel
the earth remains the earth,
held like a newborn
each new day,
a silent presence
among the stars.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.”
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”
“However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“However, for human beings, practice is much too tiresome. We want to show our appreciation like sightseers, without doing it ourselves. Like spectator sports, which are very popular, the Zen fad is really a spectator Zen or Zen sightseeing fad.”
Source: Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“However, for human beings, practice is much too tiresome. We want to show our appreciation like sightseers, without doing it ourselves. Like spectator sports, which are very popular, the Zen fad is really a spectator Zen or Zen sightseeing fad.
Roshi, Kosho Uchiyama. Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Kindle Locations 2165-2167). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.”
Source: Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.”
“However frightening the truth may seem we have to face it, becauase being afraid of it won't make it go away. Being afraid only shrinks our minds and makes people invent myths small enough for them to cope with.”
Source: Midnight Sun
“However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.”
“However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.”
“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.”
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
“However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.”
“However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.”
“However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.”
“However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.”
“However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“However good or bad a situation is, it will change.”
“However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.”
Source: Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
“However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.”
Source: Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures
“However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.”
Source: Singular Preference: Portraits and Essays
“However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They're a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they're all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.”
“However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”
“However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.”
“However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.”
Source: The Limits of State Action
“However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.”
“However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.”
“However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.”
“However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“However great the fear, I will not look away
If at the end of everything, there is love”
“However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.”
“However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own”
Source: Rafa: My Story
“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”