Top 100 How Else Quotes
#1. Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?
Lisa Scottoline
#2. If asking for a sign is asking for too much, how else are you supposed to truly believe on your own? The only other way is to believe what you are told, and that hasn't worked for her.
Chris Dietzel
#3. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau
#5. Never hide your light, for how else is a man to notice you? Your spark, your fire, is your most cherished possession.
Elizabeth Boyle
#6. The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.
Sarah McLachlan
#7. Blank pages are cruel
Pure torture in white or beige
But how else to start
A.A. Patawaran
#8. The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
Padma Lakshmi
#9. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.
Becky Chambers
#10. Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 - that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
Rita Hayworth
#11. A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.
Suzanne Wrightt
#12. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
David Mitchell
#13. You are the kind of woman who makes me believe in God, Ceony," he murmured. "I don't know how else it could be possible to find you. For heaven's sake, you even delivered yourself to my front door." She
Charlie N. Holmberg
#14. I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
#15. Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"
Jim Rohn
#16. Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?
Robert Noyce
#17. NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
Terry Pratchett
#18. It's good to be bored in the car, I always tell him. Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are?
Lauren Graham
#19. But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone.
Chaim Potok
#20. I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.
Paul Weller
#21. How does she keep it up? How can Miss Hodge be a teacher and not use witchcraft at all? I use it all the time. How else can I have eyes in the back of my head?'
'One of the great mysteries of our time,' Chrestomanci agreed.
Diana Wynne Jones
#22. Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his path
And cleanse his soul from sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
#23. Natural talent!" crowed Vincent, sweeping my sweaty self up into his arms and pacing across the room, holding me like a trophy. "Of course my girlfriend's got it. In truckloads! How else could she have slain a giant evil zombie, single-handedly saving my undead body?
Amy Plum
#24. Wine makes us proud of our past," said one official. "It gives us courage and hope." How else to explain why vignerons in Champagne rushed into their vineyards to harvest the 1915 vintage even as artillery shells were falling all around?
Don Kladstrup
#25. What's wrong with wanting to live...? We may be different but we were still given life. Given a chance. If we can only eat humans, then that's what we'll do. How else are we supposed to live with these bodies of ours?!
Sui Ishida
#26. I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?
Marian Keyes
#27. Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
Bob Uecker
#28. Is Bronson mad! Let me ask you! How else can I be? I'm probably the maddest guy on two legs if the truth was known, but prison will never beat me, I'd sooner die today than allow it too!
Stephen Richards
#29. Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
Thomas Carlyle
#30. You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen?
Suji Kwock Kim
#31. I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?
Elana Dykewomon
#32. a while, he said, "You must really love him. To do what you've done." "He'd do the same for me," I said, knowing it was true. No matter how else I felt, I believed that with everything I had. And
T.J. Klune
#33. I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher
#34. Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone?
David Mitchell
#35. Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured against the lives of others have come about?
Neel Mukherjee
#36. I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, 'Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.' And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#37. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.
Iain Reid
#38. How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
Janette Oke
#39. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#40. How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
#41. We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
David Foster Wallace
#42. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
Leslye Walton
#43. What else is there to do but laugh and joke ... how else can you bear up under the unbearable?
Jim Thompson
#44. Boys should sleep in during the summer. I don't know how else people expect them to grow.
N.D. Wilson
#45. How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself ... ?
Dalma Heyn
#46. Trademaster," he said.....
"Who is he?" Claire asked again.
"He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is Evil, and like all evil, he has enormous power. He tempts. He taunts. And he takes.
Lois Lowry
#48. I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away?
Ally Condie
#49. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
George S. Clason
#50. James T Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
Harve Bennett
#51. We judge other according to results; how else?
not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
George Eliot
#52. Sweet Jesus," he whispered, trailing kisses along the line of her jaw. "Our excavation must have freed some deep, dark ancient enchantment from the earth. How else to explain this magic?
Cara Elliott
#53. There are good times in everybody's satchel, nor do we all get a free pass. That would be a split decision, as they call it. How else is the planned brotherhood to float forward?
John Ashbery
#54. The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise
#55. I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau
#56. What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!"
~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
Lloyd Alexander
#57. Nikki, never underestimate the ability of the devils among us to see only the saints in themselves. How else could they go about their day?
Richard Castle
#58. We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
#59. My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
Dan Miller
#60. And that's my comfort
that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
Craig Thompson
#61. Your child acts this way because she doesn't know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.
Jeffrey Bernstein
#62. Of course it hurts, it's a spanking. How else would it work?
Breanna Hayse
#63. What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
Lucretius
#64. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.
Aisha Tyler
#65. How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?
Steven Pressfield
#66. Listen when the sirens sing. How else will you learn?
Marty Rubin
#67. But of course, how else to learn the right signs?
Paulo Coelho
#68. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?
Matthew S. Williams
#69. God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?
Swami Vivekananda
#70. How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
Joan Of Arc
#71. I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.
Mike Nichols
#72. Change always sounds bad < ... > we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?
Deborah Cooke
#73. Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.
Ali Smith
#74. You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?
Benjamin Button
#75. You are the kind of women who makes me believe in God...I don't know how else it could be possible to find you.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#76. This rootless shifting east and west
I can't suppress a smile myself
but how else can I make
the whole world my home.
If any of my old friends
come around asking
say I'm down at the river
by the Second Fushimi Bridge.
Baisao
#77. They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.
Robert Browning
#79. How else to explain the great mysteries of life and death except through the providence of God? How else to try to make sense of it all? Sunday
Karen J. Hasley
#80. I'm gay," I said, not sure how else to say it.
"You're fifteen," she said. "You can't be gay.
Michael Thomas Ford
#81. Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
George R R Martin
#82. How else to explain the accomplishments of a warrior such as Artemis Entreri, who could outfight many drow veterans ten times his age?
R.A. Salvatore
#84. A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.
Kate Griffin
#85. All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
Edward Abbey
#86. Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price.
Grewal
#87. I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.
Martin Scorsese
#88. In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare Pavese
#89. Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.
Cynthia Lewis
#90. Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.
J.K. Rowling
#91. And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
Cormac McCarthy
#92. No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?
Nickolas Butler
#93. How else do people find happiness except in fulfilling their duty?"
There can be no happiness without fairness," she said. "Remember that, Om - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Rohinton Mistry
#94. Men," she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. "They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts.
Kim Harrison
#95. Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the fact that the happiest countries in the world--Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands--are hardly religious at all?
Eric Weiner
#96. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.
C.J. Carlyon
#97. How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
Marcel Proust
#98. The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
Leonard Ravenhill
#99. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?
Jeanette Winterson
#100. I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.
Michael Welch
