All Quotes

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
‐‐ Robert Mondavi

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
‐‐ John Burroughs

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
‐‐ Bram Stoker

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
‐‐ Edward Young

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
‐‐ Robert Blair

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
‐‐ Hayden Fry

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
‐‐ Nellie Bly

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
‐‐ Johnny Weissmuller

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
‐‐ Henry George

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
‐‐ Ross MacDonald

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
‐‐ Mary Astell

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?
‐‐ George Papandreou

How can a president not be an actor?
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
‐‐ Arthur Hertzberg

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
‐‐ Paul Sweeney

How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.
‐‐ Mike Posner

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
‐‐ Brian Greene

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
‐‐ Auberon Herbert

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
‐‐ Bob Kane

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
‐‐ Maria Montessori

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
‐‐ Lou Reed

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?
‐‐ Tom Douglas

How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
‐‐ Curt Weldon

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

How can human rights be ever developed for the majority of Chinese people? The only way is to organize. To organize workers, peasants, merchants, industrialists, and students at the grassroots level.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
‐‐ John Fahey

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
‐‐ Boyle Roche

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
‐‐ Victor Ponta

How can I die? I'm booked.
‐‐ George Burns

How can I ever dog Derek Jeter? It's impossible. There is nothing to knock. He's a great defensive player. He's a great offensive player.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
‐‐ Simon Raven

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?
‐‐ James Wolcott

How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
‐‐ E. M. Forster

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
‐‐ Jose Padilha

How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me?
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams