Top 100 I Wonder How Quotes
#1. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
Fred Rogers
#2. I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
Ray Bradbury
#3. Guilt is useless. The world torments us, and we react by tormenting ourselves. I wonder how we can ever have such a low opinion of ourselves that we join in.
Philip K. Dick
#4. Am I forgiven yet?" he asked, kissing her back. She snorted. "That wasn't you making it up to me. That was you using orgasms to soften me up so I'd more easily forgive you. Sometimes I wonder how you live with yourself." He
Suzanne Wright
#5. I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.
Shepard Smith
#6. When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.
Scott Cohen
#7. I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. I wonder how many people actually realize how blessed they are & know without a shadow of doubt that God has them covered.
LaNina King
#9. I wonder how the Cubs are doing.
Andy Weir
#10. If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
C.S. Lewis
#11. Sometimes I wonder if I'm falling in love with her. Sometimes I wonder how long I can pretend I'm not.
Karina Halle
#12. Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle.
Ally Condie
#13. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.
Neil Leckman
#14. I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
Alice Hoffman
#15. I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
Anna Chancellor
#16. I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.
Julie Kagawa
#17. 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
#18. When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
Micky Dolenz
#19. I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?
Ann M. Martin
#20. I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. When I take you in my arms, I wonder how on earth I ever survived without know what that felt like before I met you.
Jennifer Shirk
#22. I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.
Preston Sprinkle
#23. Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish we might throw back.
Lionel Shriver
#24. Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright
#25. I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
Terry Tempest Williams
#26. I always look at a girls shoes. And if they're wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.
Sebastian Stan
#27. I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone.
Alex Flinn
#28. After the kiss, he said he'd been wanting to do it for a long time. I wonder how long. From the first second I saw you.
Kelly Moran
#29. We all have evil in us," Steve says. "Some more than others. I never knew I had this in me, and it scares me, because I wonder how much of it is still inside. Waiting to come out.
Blake Crouch
#30. Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#31. Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.
Merle Haggard
#32. I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.
M.F. Moonzajer
#33. I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?
Gail Carson Levine
#34. I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#35. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.
Miriam Schapiro
#36. And to be blunt - while I know I can't prove this - I wonder how much of the middle class consists of people in government or protected service-sector jobs who don't actually produce nearly as much as their pay.
Tyler Cowen
#37. I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
Larry Wall
#38. I swallow, my throat painfully dry. If it were just me, I wonder how hard I'd fight, what extremes I'd go to to survive. But it isn't just me, and extremes don't even come close to what I'd do to protect the people I love. I
Amanda Bouchet
#39. I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
Anne Tyler
#40. I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.
Lubos Motl
#41. I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
Joyce Meyer
#42. I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
Alex Ferguson
#43. I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.
Jodi Picoult
#44. And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
Rube Goldberg
#45. I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#46. Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.
Robert Jordan
#47. How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..
Hunter S. Thompson
#48. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
Megan McCafferty
#49. Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus Zusak
#50. From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too. I wonder how many more freckle's he's got. Are they all over, or just where the sun's touched?
Good Lord, why am I thinking of Finn Belastra without his clothes on?
Jessica Spotswood
#51. I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.
Isadora Duncan
#52. I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime.
Daria Snadowsky
#53. Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
#54. David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.
Mario Cuomo
#55. I wonder how on earth I was lucky enough to find her.
Kyra Davis
#56. Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
#57. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)
Markus Zusak
#58. I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
Dan Groat
#59. A Stranger There is a love I reminisce, like a seed I've never sown. Of lips that I am yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. Hands that wrap around my wrists, and arms that feel like home. I wonder how it is I miss, these things I've never known.
Lang Leav
#60. I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
W. Somerset Maugham
#61. I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
David Mitchell
#62. Ah, critics! How unforgiving they are toward anything that isn't, in some special way, known only to them, absolutely first-rate. Do they ever guess, I wonder, how much energy and guts and sheer talent it takes to be second-rate?
Robertson Davies
#63. I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.
Sarah Ruhl
#64. I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#65. Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North
Jim Harrison
#66. As i looked into his face, my arms encircled around his waist, smelling his wonderfully masculine scent, i wonder how i can deny that what we had was more then friendship?
Kailin Gow
#67. I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.
Erika Lance
#68. I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a blouse to go on. No purpose. Just siting there unnoticed. Forgotten.
Sarah Ockler
#69. Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.
Stephen Chbosky
#70. Sooner or later, everybody dies. I figure it's best to spend your life doing what you enjoy. Every morning when I stand and look into the mirror, that time is still my own. I wonder how much longer that will last.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#71. I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.
Agnetha Faltskog
#72. As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#73. Sometimes I wonder how I'm supposed to begin again, ya know? How am I supposed to ... " He coughed and ran his hand over his water-soaked face. "How am I supposed to ever be happy again?
Brittainy C. Cherry
#74. There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?
Judd Apatow
#75. I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
Juliet Marillier
#77. Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!
Lisa Bevere
#78. I wonder how she could forget about it, a thing like that. And I wonder how she can go on living if she doesn't.
Cath Crowley
#79. When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them? And italics. How do you make italics happen?
Neil Gaiman
#80. Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
Virginia Woolf
#81. Bruce ate a mouthful of eggs and meditated. 'I wonder how many of the great heroes of history would turn out to be a slow runner, if you ever investigated the circumstances.
Barbara Michaels
#82. I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.
Veronica Roth
#83. My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
Michael Palin
#84. My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
Hannah Ware
#85. I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
John Steinbeck
#86. I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
Libba Bray
#87. I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.
Cindy Sherman
#88. I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.
Henry Rollins
#89. 'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'
Barry Hughart
#90. There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?
Jay Woodman
#91. When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.
Tony D'Souza
#92. Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I'm thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon.
I wonder how many of them haven't got any eyebrows?
Louise Rennison
#93. With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.
Susan Ohanian
#94. There are people in the world that believe in God and those who don't. I wonder how the ones without God can live.
Gigi
#95. This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
Judy Blume
#96. I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.
Harry S. Truman
#97. The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative ... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
Skrillex
#98. Isolation filled with loud silence is a writer's paradise. I wonder how far north toward the Mediterranean must I travel to get there.
Terry A. O'Neal
#99. I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.
Amandla Stenberg
#100. I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.
Haley Webb
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