I Wonder Why Quotes

#1. I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see.

Kelsey Sutton

#2. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. They grind their hips toward each other, and I wonder why the slightest bit of booze turns chicks into lesbos.

Victoria Scott

#4. Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.

Ron Eglash

#5. I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Sonakshi Sinha

#6. I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

Gerald Jampolsky

#7. I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious.

Leslye Walton

#8. Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

Bill Maher

#9. Ready or not! Before I can stop him, Max races toward the bed and dives on top of us. Oh! Oh it feels even better than I imagined. He rolls back and forth across us as Charlie laughs and I wonder why I am friends with such a raging idiot.

Victoria Scott

#10. I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

Yoko Ono

#11. Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

Farhan Akhtar

#12. I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Henry Drummond

#13. I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

David Niven

#14. I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others - mostly me - have no idea.

Kasie West

#15. I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.

Stacey Lee

#16. Lust is absurd. It strikes in the strangest places at the oddest times. She doesn't even realize she's feeling it. She's erected a barricade of propriety and lies between us. I despise the type of woman she is. I loathe her soft pink innocence. My body doesn't concur. I wonder why her?

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radioactive, Biological, or Chemical weapons capable of causing mass casualties and great destruction.

I wonder why humans aren't on the list?

Jorge Angeles

#18. Attraction, confession, unison and finally the real face of it all. I wonder why do people go blind in love and come to their senses only when it's too late!

Shilpa Sandesh

#19. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.

Tim Cahill

#20. In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Dawna Markova

#22. Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.

James Baldwin

#23. No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I've had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish.

Charles Todd

#24. I wonder why when I told him that my chest still ached even though I had finally told him how I felt, he said, "So you finally realize how I've felt these past three years?" and laughed.

Kou Yoneda

#25. I wonder why they still love me and why I can't love them back and how two normal stable people could have created something like me, lived with something like me, and tolerated something like me.

James Frey

#26. If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

Winston Churchill

#27. I wonder why people wanted someone very badly, I wonder why someone comes in your life and life begins to change, every good happens to you, and you just want that person to never go from your life, remain there for you

Shaikh Ashraf

#28. No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.

Siri Hustvedt

#29. I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

John Glover

#30. I struggle with the whys on my life. why her? why him? why me? I get frustrated with the things that are out of my control and I wonder why people don't deal with the things they can control.

Megan Bostic

#31. I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

Kaley Cuoco

#32. When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

Hilary Mantel

#33. And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.

Tahereh Mafi

#34. Sometimes I wonder why words can't actually make us bleed.

Swati Avasthi

#35. I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

L.M. Montgomery

#36. I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. Do you know what 'Sputnik' means in Russian? 'Travelling companion'. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It's just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.

Haruki Murakami

#38. I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.

Gail Sidonie Sobat

#39. I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

John Steinbeck

#40. I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

Jandy Nelson

#41. I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here ... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Bobby Womack

#42. We use to regret over our past ... but sometimes i wonder why ???
because everything we did in past was best from our side, well in case of both doing and thinking ...

Lovely Goyal

#43. I wonder why Holling had the fastest time," said Danny after the announcements - a whole lot louder than he had to. "Could it be because he was running away from two rats who were trying to eat him?"
"That might have a little to do with it," I said.

Gary D. Schmidt

#44. I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it ...

Margaret Atwood

#45. Poor Crookshanks, that witch said he'd been in there for ages; no one wanted him." "I wonder why," said Ron sarcastically as they set off toward the Leaky Cauldron.

J.K. Rowling

#46. Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Orson Scott Card

#47. Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again?

Sara Rich

#48. O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write. But sometimes, when I get hold of a book, I wonder why I let such a poor reason stop me. It does not others.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#49. I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Drake

#50. Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

Jon Meacham

#51. He's wearing black boxer briefs that strain against his hips, and again I wonder why I never found men with muscles that sexy before. I mean, this man is pure physical perfection, and if he didn't hate me so much, he'd be ideal.

Julianna Keyes

#52. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Ray Bradbury

#53. I wonder why religion is so strict on homosexuality than massacre.

M.F. Moonzajer

#54. People often ask me if I am the book's Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man's conversation with himself.

Mohsin Hamid

#55. I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

Jay Mohr

#56. I had hoped for grace," I said, "not immortality"
I wonder why so many people view sickness as a moral test. It has nothing to do with morals or grace. It's a physical test, and usually we lose.

Teju Cole

#57. I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

Edith Wharton

#58. I wonder why he shot me ?

Huey Long

#59. Azdaha were no joke ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.

Ilona Andrews

#60. I wonder why the promises I make to other people always become more important than the ones I make to myself.

Alyson Noel

#61. I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body. I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.

Nicola Yoon

#62. I saw this girl, she looks so sweet, I wonder why, I'm so scared to meet. I think about her everyday, I wake, I sleep and hope and pray, For that one day She will come to me And I will say, You are the one I wish to stay

Ryan Russell

#63. I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

Louis L'Amour

#64. This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

Rumi

#65. Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

Rachel True

#66. I wonder why looking at that causes sleepiness ... Maybe it's the illusion-type magic that Spriggans are good at or something.

Reki Kawahara

#67. I wonder why. I wonder why.
I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why
I wonder why I wonder!

Richard Feynman

#68. I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.

Ryu Murakami

#69. Everybody wonders why he disappeared. I wonder why he came back.

David Levithan

#70. Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

Anna Kendrick

#71. I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers' ...

Emily Carr

#72. Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

Luke Salisbury

#73. Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Bill Watterson

#74. When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#75. I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

John Steinbeck

#76. Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.

Lenny Bruce

#77. I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#78. I'm not a nosy person, but I'm always thinking 'I wonder why he did that? I wonder why this week he was this much better than last week?' I'm always wanting to ask questions of people. I think my advice would be get involved locally and see where it takes you.

Jill Douglas

#79. Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are - a good friend - I wonder why ...

Michael Moorcock

#80. I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

Angelina Jolie

#81. When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

#82. Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Haruki Murakami

#83. It takes a minute to say hello
Why? I wonder why
When it's seems to take forever
When you have to say Goodbye?

John Walter Bratton

#84. I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Woodrow Wilson

#85. I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Francis Bacon

#86. I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#87. Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.

Randy Alcorn

#88. There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

Maya Rudolph

#89. I collect my thoughts, I choose my words,
Whenever I decide to talk to you.

But...

I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,
Whenever I reach in front of you.

I wonder why it happens to me?
even when my feelings are genuine and true.

Saad Salman

#90. Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

William H Gass

#91. Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Willa Cather

#92. I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

Finley Peter Dunne

#93. Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

Rob Payne

#94. I wonder why bigots think their conservative and puritanical version of 'God' made the male body with a prostate gland that also co-incidentally 'just happens' to be a 'g-spot'?

Christina Engela

#95. Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

Bela Fleck

#96. I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

Del Shannon

#97. Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Debasish Mridha

#98. I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

Sylvia Plath

#99. I wonder why you see him and I hear him," Will said.
"You hear him?" Ivy reached over and switched off the motor. "You hear him?"
"So does Beth."
Ivy's mouth dropped open.
"She writes stories with messages that aren't hers. I draw angels I don't mean to draw.

Elizabeth Chandler

#100. I wonder why we hate the past so.

William Dean Howells