How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
‐‐ Maimonides
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
‐‐ Jessica Valenti
How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.
‐‐ Mike Singletary
How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
‐‐ Nate Mendel
How is an error possible in mathematics?
‐‐ Henri Poincare
How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
‐‐ Blake Farenthold
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
‐‐ Naomi Wolf
How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
‐‐ Jim Harrison
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?
‐‐ Paul Auster
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
‐‐ Alan Watts
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
‐‐ Alexandre Dumas
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
‐‐ Dan Burton
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
‐‐ Rene Cassin
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas
How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell
How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
‐‐ Francis Crick
How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
‐‐ Jay Kay
How is the Empire?
‐‐ King George V
How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.
‐‐ Dwayne Andreas
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
‐‐ Karl Kraus
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
‐‐ Simon Greenleaf
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith
How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.
‐‐ Lori Foster
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
‐‐ James Payn
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
‐‐ Robert Southey
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
‐‐ Daniel Webster
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
‐‐ Florenz Ziegfeld
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
‐‐ Ray Bolger
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.
‐‐ Tony Ross
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
‐‐ Randall Terry
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
‐‐ John Ruskin
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
‐‐ Edward Coke
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
‐‐ Spike Milligan
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
‐‐ Alice Walker