But How Quotes

#1. It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.

Christina Rickardsson

#2. There once was a lady most beautiful
Spirited, if a little unusual
Her friends were few
But how did the man queue
But to all she gave a refusal

Sarah J. Maas

#3. Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Calvin Trillin

#4. The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Spencer Johnson

#5. Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

T.K. Naliaka

#6. I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

#8. They were probably whispering their secrets but how would I know?

Chrissie Perry

#9. As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Clifford Geertz

#10. ... It's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

Sarah Dessen

#11. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.

Katherine Catmull

#12. You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

Tom Stoppard

#13. But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

David Jones

#14. Spirituality is not about how far up the mountain we get but how many we take with us.

Earnie Larsen

#15. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Baruch Spinoza

#17. When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

Jenny Lawson

#18. Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

Raheel Farooq

#19. But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

Robert Musil

#20. People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

Corey Taylor

#21. But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?

Patricia Elliott

#22. A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Mark Twain

#23. But how will I know it's my destiny?'
'Like love it will possess you ... You can't help but know.

Gail Tsukiyama

#24. You can have all of the laws and protection in place, but how do you get rid of homophobia? This is something that the U.S. is going to have to deal with.

James Costos

#25. When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Tony Dungy

#26. It matters not where or how far you travel,
the farther commonly the worse,
but how much alive you are.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it."

- Dash

Rachel Cohn

#28. Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?

Lupe Fiasco

#30. We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Thomas A Kempis

#31. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

Charles Darwin

#32. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Mark Frost

#33. This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

Sarah Dessen

#34. The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

Will Rogers

#35. Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily for us, we are.'
'Well you might know that but how do I?

Lauren Child

#36. It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge
into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

Soren Kierkegaard

#37. I have always been impressed by those indivilduals that love another so hard. Now I know, it is not how hard you love, but how. "True You Love Until The End".

Ronald Gray

#38. If we're going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We're doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities.

Scott Kelly

#39. I am still looking for a job. They keep telling me I don't have enough experience. But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience? Oh, well.

Sherman Alexie

#40. What are you doing?" Dengo would ask him. "Observing," father would say. "But how long can you observe the same thing?" "Forever.

Neal Stephenson

#41. I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Ann Brashares

#42. The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

Roshani Chokshi

#43. Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

William Wordsworth

#44. What defines us is not how we fall but how we land.

Pam Godwin

#45. When you get off stage, the audience should know a little bit about you. Not where you are from, but how you see the world. And that's the difference between like a Chris Rock joke, and like an open-miker.

Iliza Shlesinger

#46. When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Ayn Rand

#47. Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.

Wynn Bullock

#48. It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Rick Warren

#49. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

#50. There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

Mark Udall

#51. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.

William H. Whyte

#52. It is not what you endure that matters, but how you endure it.

Seneca.

#53. It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Delbert McClinton

#54. it doesn't matter how you are looking..
but how you want to look ....it matters.

Marco

#55. To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Blaise Pascal

#56. It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

Mathieu Kassovitz

#57. The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

James Hansen

#58. The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.

Wendell Berry

#59. A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.

Aaron Starmer

#60. Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

Ram Dass

#61. The question is not when the boy will die, but how.

Jeremy Shory

#62. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

#63. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Dom Starsia

#64. The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them.

Ron Kaufman

#65. But how do we even get to the land of the dead?" I asked. "I mean ... without dying.

Rick Riordan

#66. It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

John Wooden

#67. It's not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

Roger Hamilton

#68. We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Barack Obama

#69. But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?

Amy Tan

#70. Dandy, Martin replied, once again pleased with his response. A girl can make a guy feel good, great, and even fabulous, but how often does a lady hear that her man is feeling dandy?
Not often, he guessed.

Matthew Dicks

#71. Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#72. It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.

Swami Parthasarathy

#73. I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

David Levithan

#74. I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

Gerry Spence

#75. The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

Martin Carter

#76. But how far do you go for love? How much of your life do you give up for a single person? And how much do you let yourself change? When you stop being yourself, who will you become?

Katie Kacvinsky

#77. The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

Blake Mycoskie

#78. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

W.T. Purkiser

#79. My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#80. SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.

Shiv Khera

#81. Nobility is about being noble, Maa. It's about the way of the Arya. Its not about your birth, but how you conduct yourself. Being a noble is great responsibility, not a birthright.

Amish Tripathi

#82. It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

Joe Abercrombie

#83. Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

Mary Engelbreit

#84. I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan

Brittany L. Engels

#85. What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

Barack Obama

#86. The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

Anne Lamott

#87. I must accept my fate! But how was life to be lived in a world of which I had all the laws to learn? There would, however, be adventure! that held consolation; and whether I found my way home or not, I should at least have the rare advantage of knowing two worlds!

George MacDonald

#88. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?

Gayle Forman

#89. What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Gayle Forman

#90. The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Bashar Al-Assad

#91. But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

#92. Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

John Ruskin

#93. The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

Nathaniel Branden

#94. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Bobby Baldwin

#95. Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Wayne Dyer

#96. 11Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, i but how can one keep warm alone?

Anonymous

#97. Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.

Karen Salmansohn

#98. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.

Renee Lawless

#99. There is another story of a Chinese sage who was asked, "How shall we escape the heat?" - meaning, of course, the heat of suffering. He answered, "Go right into the middle of the fire." "But how, then, shall we escape the scorching flame?" "No further pain will trouble you!

Alan W. Watts

#100. Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

David Levithan