You Wonder Quotes

#1. You wonder why we entered the war years after the movie was shot.

Sam Wisestock

#2. Funny how people move through this world leaving little pieces of their story with the people they meet, for them to carry. Makes you wonder what'd happen if all those people put their puzzle pieces together.

Jeff Zentner

#3. They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Deb Caletti

#4. Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Evan Esar

#5. You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Jon Stewart

#6. Do you wonder that they will

Rafael Sabatini

#7. Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Seneca.

#8. No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Daniel H. Wilson

#9. Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions.

Dee Williams

#10. When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Andrew O'Hagan

#11. The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Dennis Prager

#13. On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

Diane Ackerman

#14. Basis, n.: There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're inlove with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

David Levithan

#15. After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Robert Breault

#16. When you realize how much women mistrust their sex, it makes you wonder how you could ever marry one ...
Dimitris Mita

Dimitris Mita

#17. Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

Faraaz Kazi

#18. The phrase Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he's talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. But then you wonder if he meant for her to run to him. To death.

Suzanne Collins

#19. When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

John Diefenbaker

#20. Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances toward things as they really are, and you wonder if it is possible to change in this life. Being with a philosopher makes you think.

Jay McInerney

#21. This is the kind of thing that you wonder about when you make things up for a living. I remain unconvinced that it is the kind of activity that is a fit occupation for an adult, but it's too late now: I seem to have a career that I enjoy which doesn't involve getting up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

#22. Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

#24. Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Seamus Heaney

#25. You wonder if that really constitutes being 'a coincidence' but don't press her on the issue, instead sticking your hand down your pocket to pretend to look for something when really just scratching an itchy testicle.

Rudolf Kerkhoven

#26. That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?

Alexander McCall Smith

#27. Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?

Patrick O'Brian

#28. When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?

Matthew Norman

#29. It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually choice? How could it be that tiny serendipitous events could change everything? And if lucky events could change everything, could minor mishaps have the same power?

Aditi Khorana

#30. Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in
I don't know, say, a Quaker household
surely things would be different.

Kate Atkinson

#31. If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

Dalai Lama

#32. This is a fast love culture, where people
fall in and out of something so sacred you wonder if it has the same meaning it did a hundred years ago.

Tarryn Fisher

#33. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#34. A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.

Roger Ebert

#35. When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about ... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

Gary Sheffield

#36. They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better - it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

Jerry Spinelli

#37. A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Bill Bryson

#38. When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

Sebastian Vettel

#39. She had one of those goofy smiles that made you wonder if she was too stupid to know that life sucks most of the time.

Darcia Helle

#40. I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Fran Lebowitz

#41. You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

David Bowie

#42. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Steve Jobs

#43. Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that constantly preys on his own species.

Leonard Budgell

#44. Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.

Sean Mahon

#45. You wonder when it's going to get easier for us, but it's not easy for anybody, Allie. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it... that's where greatness lies. And we're great.

Jenni Moen

#46. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.

John Maeda

#47. And if you wonder how serious I am when I talk about filling your head with positive thoughts: I only watch one type of movies. The ones with happy endings.

Petter A. Stordalen

#48. When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

Kieran Bew

#49. There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Brian W. Aldiss

#50. For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

Tim Daly

#51. Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Jean Baudrillard

#52. Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.

Richard White

#53. *jerk'jrk 1 an ex-wife or ex-husband who continually annoys you with stupid, irrational, and immature behavior 2 one whose values differ so dramatically from yours that you wonder how you will ever make it through your child's lifetime

Julie A., M.A. Ross

#54. Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#55. You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

Jim Thompson

#56. I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Harry S. Truman

#57. It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.

William Faulkner

#58. You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Clyde Tombaugh

#59. When, you wonder, does Sarah go west and build her rambling mansion? Not yet. Soon, but not yet. First, her husband has to do a blood-coughing two-step off this mortal coil.

Laird Barron

#60. Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

Mickey Rooney

#61. The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won't make you Wonder Woman. It'll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you'll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your 'less' instead of your 'best' because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.

Lysa TerKeurst

#62. I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

Jeaniene Frost

#63. First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

Robert Creeley

#64. Listening to your son after you've spent time with a girl will make you wonder when he became Jodie Foster in Nell.

Laurie Kilmartin

#65. Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you."
"I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#66. Exactly,' the queen said. 'I've been where you are, and I know how difficult it is. You second guess the things you do; you second guess everything he does. You wonder over every conversation, trying to read into the breaths between sentences. It's exhausting.

Kiera Cass

#67. Jesus knelt down by Satan's shrunken form. "Don't you wonder why I didn't kill you?" Smiling, he said, "I'm saving you for the day when you love me. It will come.

Deepak Chopra

#68. And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.

Cecelia Ahern

#69. This is what a total breakdown must be, I though. You find yourself standing somewhere you should't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely. You've lost the plot, taken a wrong turning, jumped into a train whose destination is total lunacy

Gilly Macmillan

#70. I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you're lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.

Amy Thomas

#71. If God makes you wander, keep calm, don't worry and go by His rules for He will surely show you what will make you wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#72. You wonder, how could socialists, true socialists work with Islamists? Because if those Islamists take over, the first thing they're going to do is kill the socialists.

Louie Gohmert

#73. It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.

Kyle MacLachlan

#74. Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.

Brandon Mull

#75. Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.

Janet Morris

#76. And, at that moment, it dawned on me. I was one of those people. The people that I detested. The jobless people that you see all of the time. The people that make you wonder.

Scott Hildreth

#77. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Tadao Ando

#78. An erotic photograph is like a still from an unfolding story that makes you wonder what has already happened and what is about to happen next.

Chloe Thurlow

#79. Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#80. Everything move ... you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.

Geoff Ryman

#81. I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

Benjamin Stone

#82. After a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on.

Raymond Carver

#83. I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Mindy Kaling

#84. In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

C.S. Lewis

#85. When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

Shannon L. Alder

#86. To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.

W. Somerset Maugham

#87. How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?"
"Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#88. I carry all the thoughts and feelings Ive ever had. Conversations, smells tastes and visions. Yet you. Wonder why I am always so tired?!?

Tina J. Richardson

#89. You don't realize how much you miss something till it comes back to you, and then you wonder how you went so long without it.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#90. I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

Annie Lennox

#91. Footprints are an amazing thing, even the ones you can't see. They make you wonder who's walked right where you're walking. Who's travelled this same path? What were their concerns? Who did they love? Are they still alive?

A.E. Murphy

#92. There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

Eberhard Weber

#93. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Emma Watson

#94. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?

Carson McCullers

#95. Do not let the Christians around you wonder when souls are saved, but urge them to believe in the undiminished power of the glad tidings, and teach them to marvel if no saving result follows the delivery of the testimony of Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#96. Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.

Jill Mansell

#97. I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.

Marshall Curry

#98. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

Derek Raymond

#99. Don't spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything
related to his feelings for you

Greg Behrendt

#100. I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'

Peter Shaffer