Top 100 How Can You Quotes
#1. Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
Ali Farahnakian
#2. For whipping cream, of course. How can you whip cream without whips?
Roald Dahl
#4. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.
Samantha Young
#5. How can you say bad things about someone you don't know?" I shout. "How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?" she's not better than Yaqui. It's like everywhere there's a bully in my face.
Meg Medina
#7. 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
#8. Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
Ellen Hopkins
#9. How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.
Frederick Lenz
#10. So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
Ralph McTell
#11. How can you miss something you've never really had?
Alexis Hall
#12. How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
Amy Tan
#13. When you experience His love, the truth of what He thinks about you and His goodness, then how can you doubt that you were made with a purpose?
Joshua Stannard
#14. If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
Geraldine Ferraro
#15. She couldn't repay him. She couldn't even appropriately thank him. How can you thank someone for The Cure? Or the X-Men? Sometimes it felt like she'd always be in his debt.
Rainbow Rowell
#16. How can you lose when you're doing you?
Nas
#17. Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
Jonny Greenwood
#18. But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
David Nicholls
#19. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).
Gregory Palamas
#20. How can you use what most excites, angers, or upsets you to achieve what you want to be, do or experience?
Julie Connor
#21. How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
James C. Collins
#22. Of all the guile! How can you be objective? You have no perspective! You're only 16!
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#23. How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love
Robin S. Sharma
#24. How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?
PureDragonWolf
#25. When is your birthday?" ( ... )
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. "You don't know?"
"No."
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. "How can you not know?"
"Do you know mine?" he asked.
"Of course I do. It's the day you met me.
Gena Showalter
#26. With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#27. You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?
Edmund White
#28. How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences?
Chip Heath
#29. Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.
Charles Hazlewood
#30. How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Don Bluth
#31. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.
Susanna Kaysen
#32. Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?
Rajneesh
#33. What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things? And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there, duh.
Cara Hoffman
#34. They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been?
Helen Dunmore
#35. If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta
#36. Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
Eloise Lownsbery
#37. I'm always on Netflix. They got 'Breaking Bad!' How can you say no to that?
Tony Oller
#38. Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
Cesare Pavese
#39. That cloak of love you were wearing - he's torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?
Antonia Michaelis
#40. How can I tell her ... " His voice broke, and he had to clear his throat. "How the fuck can I explain this to her?"
"How can you not. She loves you.
Vishous - Butch (re. Jane)(Lover Unleashed)
J.R. Ward
#41. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?
Raphael Carter
#42. How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
#43. If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
Ken Ham
#44. What if they'd brought some weapon with them, or are launching an assault on the Mokshi right now? How can you or her trust people who are no better than bandits?" I gaze at the human skin stretched over the table. Zan follows my look and quiets. "We are all villains here," I say.
Kameron Hurley
#45. How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
Evanescence
#46. I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
W.S. Merwin
#47. Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?
Torgny Lindgren
#49. Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3
Tom Bruno
#50. Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.
Andre Benjamin
#51. How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.
Angelica Stevenson
#52. The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?
Leigh Newman
#53. If you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?
Gloria Steinem
#55. How can you try harder at something that consumes every waking thought?
Brigid Kemmerer
#56. God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Rajneesh
#57. If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
H.D.
#58. It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?
Lea Salonga
#59. I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
Cynthia Ozick
#60. You make me feel cocky. It's the way you react to me that makes me feel like a fucking god. How can you not see that?
Christina Lauren
#61. I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
Little Richard
#62. Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Ken Levine
#63. The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.
Elliott Bisnow
#64. I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.
Benicio Del Toro
#65. Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?
- Sam McQueen
Sally Nicholls
#66. How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said.
You talk without words. We are always talking without words.
Well, what good are words, then?
Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.
William, Saroyan
#67. How can you have so much compassion? Isn't it exhausting caring so much?" "Not as exhausting as pretending not to care about anything.
Tonya Burrows
#68. How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?" He raised his arms dramatically. "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure
Cassandra Clare
#69. Whether you believe in a creed, or what you call religion, or not, there is something in Socialism that must move you. How can you love God, whom you have not seen, if you do not love your fellow man, whom you have seen?
Rose Pastor Stokes
#70. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
Pat Summitt
#71. How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Shirin Ebadi
#72. If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
Maya Lin
#73. How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?
Rachel Caine
#74. How can you be so sure about me?" He leveled his spellbinding gaze on my face. "When you've been in the dark as long as I have, moy angel, there is no mistaking the light.
Kresley Cole
#75. I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
Ava DuVernay
#76. Don't, amor. Te adoro. I've already lost a son. I'm not going to lose another. You're not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you're not." "How can you love me so much?" "How could I not love you? You're the most beautiful boy in the world.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#77. Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self.
Yvonne Pierre
#78. Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
Russell Simmons
#79. Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be told and to accept that you are this or that. Beware
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#80. I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?
Don Imus
#81. With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.
Orit Gadiesh
#82. 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
#83. No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
Kyan Douglas
#84. Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi
#85. Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!
As if there were no
such thing as integrity!
Frank O'Hara
#86. That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know."
"Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind."
"I so wish you hadn't said that.
Rachel Caine
#87. How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
Sonia Rykiel
#88. How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
Sorin Cerin
#89. Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Roland Barthes
#90. How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?
Maya Berger
#91. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
Sam Shepard
#92. If you are taught how to love, your love is going to be false. Real love should be spontaneous. How can you be taught to love? If you are taught, then you will act accroding to those rules and the natural flow will not be there.
Osho
#93. Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.
Henny Youngman
#94. How can you expect to write if you can't cry....Ling
Shirley Wine
#95. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?
Temple Grandin
#96. Like, what if the people around you had been different?" "How can you separate those things, though? The people are the place is the people. And anyway, I didn't think there was anybody else to be friends with. I thought everyone was either scared, like you, or oblivious, like Lacey. And th -
John Green
#97. You truly are twisted," Cut snarled. "How can you piss me off and make me proud all at the same time?
Pepper Winters
#98. It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.
Stephen Graham Jones
#99. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#100. When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart
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