Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 6261.
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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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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.
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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?
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Source: Death on the Nile (1937)
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