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Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Habits form a second nature.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Headline writing is an art form.

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.

Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

Hope comes in many forms.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.