Wondering Why Quotes

#1. You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough."
"It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."
Ryder made a face. "Are you insane? why say something like that and temp the cosmos?"
Laith watch him walk away, wondering if he had just drawn the interest of fate.

Donna Grant

#2. Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams; criticizing what they're wearing ... and wondering why we're depressed.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets ... then it hit me

Stewart Francis

#4. You would do the same for me. He smiled a big toothy smile before he hopped off my car and walked away, leaving me wondering what was up with the guy in the girl jeans and why I couldn't get him off of my mind.

Magan Vernon

#5. For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Robin Wasserman

#6. In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

Mary Harron

#7. In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Charles Darwin

#8. But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

Shane Claiborne

#9. Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

John Updike

#10. Don't you own a pair of riding pants?"
Tucker shook her head, wondering how fast horses were.
Lorelei shot her sister a harsh glare. "Why does it seem as if she's never ridden a day in her life?"

Vivian crossed her arms. "Because I brought her to a manor, not a stable.

Emory Sharplin

#11. If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

Corrine Brown

#12. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#13. Over weeks and months ... you will get addicted to the awesome taste of healthy food ... and start wondering why you never did it earlier!

The Fitness Doc

#14. Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.

Bruce Bruce

#15. Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Chevy Chase

#16. It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

Roselyne Bosch

#17. Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Jim Rohn

#18. My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. Nah, mostly they're just students. Bit of weed, bit of booze, bit of studying, bit of pining away in their rooms wondering why nobody wants to shag them.

Stuart MacBride

#20. Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Idries Shah

#21. But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?

Margaret Weis

#22. Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

#23. For a minute, we're just two people wondering why things are the way they are.

Kathryn Stockett

#24. We may be wondering why we can't keep certain relationships. We can't keep people who tuned higher/lower than our thought process. Get over it!

Assegid Habtewold

#25. Is your name even David?' I asked as I yanked my panties back on.
'Is yours Melanie?' he inquired, buttoning his jeans.
'I asked first,' I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came so easily to me.

Robyn Peterman

#26. If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.

Alice Sebold

#27. Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.

Harold Monro

#28. He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.

Jeff VanderMeer

#29. Let me get this straight. You've just told me that I was bitten by a vampire, had sex with an angel, then I died, but I've risen again as a succubus. And you've wondering why I don't believe you?"
(Jackie)

Jill Myles

#30. It's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.

Chris Rea

#31. He was wondering why, in Britain, he could get just about every type of coffee possible, including some he felt were patently ridiculous, but finding a good cup of tea was becoming harder and harder.

Gavin G. Smith

#32. There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described ... I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.

Sophie Blackall

#33. I was wondering why I wasn't getting the right answers. It was then I realized that I wasn't asking the right people.

Mansi Soni

#34. they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born. It

Charles Dickens

#35. Time marches on while mothers weep, each one wondering why the world hasn't stopped to mourn.

Colin Gigl

#36. We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.

Elizabeth Hormann

#37. 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

#38. You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Gary Lutz

#39. It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be
but I'm not.

Rachel Dolezal

#40. I'm going to turn on the light, and we'll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.

Gale Wilhelm

#41. the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.

David Downing

#42. Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am ...

Nick Hornby

#43. The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek.

Joe Vitale

#44. [ ... ] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

Jodi Picoult

#45. Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Caroline Knapp

#46. I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker

#47. 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.

John Corey Whaley

#48. That's the first thing you said to me. I was just wondering why you're here. My seven words, I've been wondering the same thing for so long.

Patrick Rothfuss

#49. Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie's heart - remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.

Susan Wiggs

#50. We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you."
I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
I let go

Richelle Mead

#51. Next time we're on the couch, zoning out in front of the tube, we'll be wondering why we're wasting precious time when we could be making extraordinary moments.

Carrie Firestone

#52. Haw smiled. He knew Hem was wondering, "Who moved my cheese?" but Haw was wondering, "Why didn't I get up and move with the Cheese, sooner?" As

Spencer Johnson

#53. I keep wondering why the Academy decided that they needed a separate category for animated films just at a moment when there are a lot of people who couldn't tell you whether a film is animated or not. - Roy E. Disney

Newton Lee

#54. I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

Del Shannon

#55. I haven't come here with you for the sole purpose of making out," I evade, wondering if she can hear my heart.She scrunches her nose, arches a brow, and meets my gaze dead on with her cutest challenge glare. "Well that's why I've brought you here.

Anne Eliot

#56. Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#57. It wasn't enough, just knowing that Noelle was alive and on her way back to us. So I sat there wondering if Noelle had screamed when she was taken. And if she had, why hadn't anyone heard?

Kristina McBride

#58. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Updike

#59. We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Ram Dass

#60. I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.

Stephen Bruner

#61. If I ever was texting frequently with someone and wanted to make an alias, I think I'd go with "Scottie Pippin." Then my friends who were peeking at my screen could be left wondering why I was texting with the former Chicago Bull star on the reg.

Aziz Ansari

#62. Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn't really know you?

Khadija Rupa

#63. 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 the what-it-meant.

Joe Hill

#64. I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

Lawrence Hill

#65. When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.

Craig Groeschel

#66. You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe

Rick Riordan

#67. I was just wondering why you did that. Pretend to be a dipshit, I mean." The president grinned. "Prolly the same fuckin' reason you do.

Scott Hawkins

#68. A lot will be lost that way, of course.
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.

Ray Bradbury

#69. My heart stutters - not why? or how? - those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?

Beth Revis

#70. Dear Dick, I'm wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the '70s has been read only as "collaborative" and "feminist.

Chris Kraus

#71. Are you wondering yet why I'm telling you all this?" "Yes," said Olivia. "Very much." "It's to tell you that fate is seldom found in the first place you look for it.

R. Lee Smith

#72. I do admire your love for a gamble." He took her cup and drank from it as well. "I was simply thinking out loud earlier. There's no harm in thinking."
"I have my own thoughts. I am wondering why my father ever respected you.

Marie Rutkoski

#73. Georgina darts forward, grabs my hand, and pumps it up and down while peering at my face as if she's wondering why water isn't gushing from my mouth.

Charles Stross

#74. Do you believe in reincarnation? ... I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

Nora Roberts

#75. when we're done, I'll be where the night never stops
cradling a bruise that's shaped like you
wondering why sleep never came to me
wondering how I still dreamed

Alicen Grey

#76. We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things.

T.J. Kirk

#77. I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why
out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved
I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

Nicholas Sparks

#78. Well, I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a rock star, wondering why I bothered.

C.J. Skuse

#79. I was just wondering why you're here.

Patrick Rothfuss

#80. While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.

Dan Pearce

#81. I thought you saw meaning in that sort of thing," said Vorkosigan.
"In the abstract. Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#82. Just seeing her again, even from a distance, reminds meof why I crave to be around her so much. It's only been a
few days, but since the moment I met her, no matter where I am, I'm constantly wondering about her. My attention is constantly homed in on her like I'm a compass and she's my North.

Colleen Hoover

#83. All I could think about was Gemma kissing Liam, Liam kissing Gemma - and wondering why that image made my insides knot up.

Barbara Dee

#84. It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Eric Ladin

#85. I don't know about you, but there have been plenty of times when I have driven home from a hospital visit wondering why they let me be the pastor.

Andy Stanley

#86. The urban myth that carrots are good for your eyesight originated in wartime disinformation, intended to stop the Nazis wondering why the British were getting so good at spotting raiding bombers.

Ian Stewart

#87. Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking
after himself.

Richard Dawkins

#88. You know what I've been thinking?
Why I hadn't crawled over the center console and into his lap yet? Because damn if I was wondering that very thing, but the car was way too small for those kind of Shenanigans.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#89. And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

Amy Tan

#90. I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

Graham Greene

#91. Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

Rhonda Byrne

#92. I got used to seeing him waiting for me at the end of corridors, or sitting at the edge of my bed when I fell asleep at night. When he didn't appear, I sometimes found myself looking for him or wondering why he hadn't come, and that frightened me most of all.

Leigh Bardugo

#93. Because thats what people do ... they leap and hope to God they can fly! Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock ... wondering the whole way down ... "why in the hell did I jump?" But here I am Sarah, falling. And there's only one person that makes me feel like I can fly ... That's you.

Will Smith

#94. But Theon Greyjoy found himself wondering why any man would climb the snow-slick steps to the battlements in the black of night just to take a piss.

George R R Martin

#95. I liked to dwell on these shortcomings now. It wasn't only that I was wondering why they had ever annoyed me. I was hoping they would annoy me still, so that I could stop missing her.

Anne Tyler

#96. The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

David Hewson

#97. I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Paul Gascoigne

#98. Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

Taylor Swift

#99. I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.

Stephenie Meyer

#100. Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ...

Carl Sagan