Quotes About Wondering

#1. I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.

Estelle Maskame

#2. I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

Clare Boothe Luce

#3. I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas.

Ann Marie Stewart

#4. I'm afraid she'll look at him in some
way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is
fear?

Jerry Spinelli

#5. While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

Phillips Brooks

#6. There's two wolves battling us all right now ... One's good, the other one is evil. If you're wondering which wolf inside will succeed, simple it's the one that you feed ...

Ronnie Radke

#7. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Charles Bukowski

#8. We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

Donald Glover

#9. In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

#10. So, to start with, you might be wondering how this chick with a monkey on her back about the size
of King Kong is running about staking nasties and whatnot. Well, truth be told, I've been stretching the
truth like it was a big handful of raspberry-flavored saltwater taffy.

Kathleen Tierney

#11. Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Leon Redbone

#12. I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...

Khaled Hosseini

#13. Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

Immortal Technique

#14. Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#15. This is the thing I learned from loving a transgender boy who took years to say his own name: that waiting with someone, existing in that quiet, wondering space with them when they need it, is worth all the words we have in us.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#16. See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

Edwin Muir

#17. The door closed firmly, leaving the poor old man on the other side, staring speechlessly at it, wondering at the silliness of females and thanking his maker that his masters had never had daughters, before taking himself off to continue his afternoon duties.

Sarah MacLean

#18. You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.

Hank Green

#19. If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

Craig Groeschel

#20. You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

Shirley Jackson

#21. I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick's fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire.

Suzanne Collins

#22. When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

Tony Blair

#23. I wanted to stay like that forever, letting the kiss linger. I was left standing there in awe as he gently pulled away and gave me a warm smile. "Let's go, the others will be wondering where we are," he said playfully.

Andrea Heltsley

#24. Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

Walter Mosley

#25. Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist.
Caleb to himself

Simone Elkeles

#26. I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Sidney Altman

#27. In a way, subtle racism was worse because it made you feel crazy. You were always left wondering, was that actually racist? Had you just imagined it?

Brit Bennett

#28. If I'd been asked to make a list of what I could do without, I'd never have managed it. But by putting the thought in my head that really none of it's important, I find myself wondering if I can't just shed all my things, my stuff, like an old skin. Maybe

J.P. Delaney

#29. Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.

J.P. Donleavy

#30. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

#31. I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.

Eilis O'Neal

#32. In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, Is this all?

Thomas Harris

#33. Confidence sells
people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

Simon Black

#34. With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#35. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

Tad Williams

#36. I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

Quentin Tarantino

#37. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

Jude Morgan

#38. That day I oft remember, when from sleep
I first awaked, and found myself reposed,
Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where
And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

John Milton

#39. You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went "Poor sod. Here's a five star review so you don't hang yourself in the garage.

Ash Gray

#40. I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

Walter Kirn

#41. I gaze out over the wide blue water, wondering what I could possibly have done in the past to have fortune smile and deliver this man to me

E.L. James

#42. I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was.

William Sanderson

#43. If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

Bruce Sterling

#44. One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you." I made a deliberately casual shrug. "I was just wondering what they were." "Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?" I

Patrick Rothfuss

#45. A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "Lost?

Nicholas Eames

#46. People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck is this?'

Sandra Dodd

#47. I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets ...

Steven Pressfield

#48. They don't want to know that you'll never eat birthday cake because you don't want to erase the magical taste of frosting on his lips. That you wake up ever day wondering why you got to live and he didn't.

Sarah Ockler

#49. Do you think that Asian girl over there is pretty? I ask Abram, testing him, wondering if I'm really his type, or if I'm just his type until that rare breed of slutty Asian drops into his lap.
Only when she lets me cheat off of her, he answers.

Jay Clark

#50. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.

Zia Haider Rahman

#51. Do you want to live the rest of your life wondering how things would have been different if you made it right?

Katie Ashley

#52. When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Jimi Hendrix

#53. You're probably wondering how I've managed to stay a virgin considering how many girls are begging for a piece of me.

Minx Hardbringer

#54. Trust me, Stryder, there is no greater pain than to let the one you love leave your side. Knowing they are out there, alone, and always wondering if they are healthy and happy. (Zenobia)

Kinley MacGregor

#55. Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

Eli Roth

#56. I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

Abbas Kiarostami

#57. Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

Faith Sullivan

#58. That makes you human. Everyone has to belong to something.' (Katherine)
'I'm wondering if I might belong with you.' (Bennet)

A.S. Green

#59. She's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

Andrea Gibson

#60. Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

Peter Medawar

#61. Sometimes I look around and wonder, how the hell did I get here? How is this my life? It all changed so fast. But then I stop wondering. Because how this life became mine doesn't really fucking matter. I'm just crazy-happy that it is.

Emma Chase

#62. I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

Robert M. Pirsig

#63. Sometime you have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how it's meant to be.

Drake

#64. Take away the things that make you panic and you won't panic. And then he spent three years wondering why everyone found that so hard to understand. All he was doing was living instead of dying. Some people get cancer. Some people get crazy. Nobody tries to take the chemo away. Solomon

John Corey Whaley

#65. I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path.

Patience Johnson

#66. In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.

Brian Andreas

#67. I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you're wondering, I don't ever want it back.

Mia Sheridan

#68. Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.

Kathleen Silber

#69. I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

Ian Williams

#70. If you're a man who works in comedy full-time and you aren't aware of what your female colleagues go through (if you have female colleagues at all), stop assuming that their experience is the same as yours, and start wondering why they aren't talking to you. The

Lindy West

#71. Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E.L. Konigsburg

#72. You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

Zach Galligan

#73. Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.

Aron Ralston

#74. Searching for nothing Wondering if I'll change I'm trying everything But everything still stays the same I thought if I showed you I could fly Wouldn't need anyone by my side I'm running backwards With broken wings I know I'll die

Sully Erna

#75. All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

Patrick DeWitt

#76. Isn't it funny how trusting husbands are? How easily they eat the food put in front of them by their wives, without ever wondering if there might be something wrong with it.

You could mix anything in it, and they would never know.

Sudha Kuruganti

#77. There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

Bill Cosby

#78. Say that to my mother. She stays up at night wondering about who will marry me with this skin colour.

Chetan Bhagat

#79. If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

Cameron Russell

#80. I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

Anthony Marra

#81. Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

Cassandra Clare

#82. I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.

Edmund Marlowe

#83. I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.

Richard S. Fuld Jr.

#84. I guess that's the lesson in all of this-not to be eighty years old, looking back on your life, wondering if you made the right choice or how your life might have been different if you'd done one thing and not another.

Mary Simses

#85. I stared at the doors and rewound the evening wondering how I got myself in this latest predicament. Without lemon drops to blame (I had diet with my spicy beef burrito), I could only blame the power tools. Now what normal girl got turned on by power tools? I was so weird!

Kristen Ashley

#86. I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me.

Harper Lee

#87. To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?

Maggie Shayne

#88. And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats ...
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

Kendrick Lamar

#89. But still he remembered wondering, at the age of ten, is it better to be safe or to be free?

Lisa Berne

#90. His eyes. She got lost in them for a long moment, wondering how she could have ever thought them tiger-gold. They were the color of dark whisky. And filled with some emotion. She stared. Something like ... Despair?

Karen Marie Moning

#91. Commander! Sir! Wake up!
Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

Cinda Williams Chima

#92. I was wondering."
"What?"
"If it's uncomfortable."
"If what's uncomfortable?"
"Having your head that far up your ass."
"You're a real comedian today, Lawson."
"You're making it easy for me.

Samantha Young

#93. I was just wondering whether Mr. Potter has quite the temperament for an Auror?

J.K. Rowling

#94. It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.

Michael Shannon

#95. Just give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them.

Amit Abraham

#96. I want to know if she's wondering the same thing I'm wondering: What does Never Never mean?

Colleen Hoover

#97. It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

Joe Hill

#98. You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

Ernest Cline

#99. ...the coldness settling in his stomach confirmed a truth that had been hiding at the back of his mind. He sat devastated by it, wondering how he could be such a fool. He and Kate were so far apart he might as well be in love with the moon.

M. Ruth Myers

#100. She remembered wondering what it was that the Albanians exported in such an anonymous way, but when on one occasion she had looked it up, she found that their only export was electricity - which, if she remembered her high school physics correctly, was unlikely to be moved around in lorries.

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