All Quotes

How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?
‐‐ Isaiah Thomas

How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?
‐‐ Yair Lapid

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
‐‐ Bertha von Suttner

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?
‐‐ Rod Stewart

How can one know anything at all about people?
‐‐ Anna Freud

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
‐‐ Franz Kafka

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
‐‐ Richard Louv

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
‐‐ Mary Renault

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
‐‐ Albert Camus

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
‐‐ Obiageli Ezekwesili

How can the human race be, like, the only living form in the universe? There have to be other life forms out there. I believe it.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
‐‐ Paulo Freire

How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
‐‐ Lee Trevino

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
‐‐ Brewster Kahle

How can we help President Obama?
‐‐ Fidel Castro

How can we live and die and never know the difference?
‐‐ Clyfford Still

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
‐‐ Desiree Rogers

How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.
‐‐ Mario Gabelli

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
‐‐ Les Dawson

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
‐‐ Roger Stone

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
‐‐ Mary Astell

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
‐‐ Eddie Guerrero

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
‐‐ Robert Plant

How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
‐‐ Azim Premji

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
‐‐ Giorgos Seferis