I Quotes
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“I often wonder if people chose their lives or whether they let their life be chosen by fate”
“I often wonder if people find themselves in all the wrong places not because they had bad directions, but because they live their lives fearing all the right places.”
“I often wonder if President Obama privately jokes about the time he launched the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to the world’s media as a great achievement!”
“I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.”
“I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.”
“I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.”
“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.”
“I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.”
“I often wonder, in a catfight, when one doesn't want to fight, if the other cat calls it a pussy.”
“I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it is learned as they grow. Maybe it's even forced upon them by circumstances that are out of their hands. Does anyone have control over their lives or are we all helpless?”
“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the one that says 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' Einstein was smart, maybe even as smart as Laserator, but he played it way too safe. Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein. I like to think he would have enjoyed my work, if he could have seen it. But no one sees anything I do, not until it's hovering over Chicago.”
Source: Soon I Will Be Invincible
“I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?”
“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
“I often wonder what it will take for me to finally understand that every promise that does not come from God was broken before it was ever sent.”
“I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.”
“I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselves and each other. But in what order?
(Daphne Bell)”
Source: Expiration Dates
“I often wonder what the difference between Republicans and Democrats is - is it Patriotism versus incompetence and corruption?”
“I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.”
Source: A Bend in the River
“I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.”
“I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.”
“I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.”
“I often wonder whether the playground of the imagination is our truest space after all.”
Source: Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self – An Irreverent Modern Path to Authentic Transformation
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”
“I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.”
“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”
“I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?”
“I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?”
“I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!”
Source: The Three Sisters
“I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.
To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.”
Source: Trauma
“I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna”
Source: This Mess We're In
“I often wondered what Beethoven was thinking when he wrote” Moonlight Sonata.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“I often wondered what it was like to be that free and so settled within yourself.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”
“I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search.”
Source: Permutations on the picturesque
“I often work by avoidance.”
“I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”
“I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.”
“I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.”
“I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.”
“I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.”
“I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.”
“I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.”
“I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.”
“I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.”
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Oh, Ditosa Pátria minha amada,
Que outrora tão grã foste temida…
Lutando pl´a fé e pl´a espada,
Teus filhos por ti deram a vida.
Quantos sonhos nasceram do nada,
Quanta grandeza e glória já havida,
Desde o Condado a Luiz Vaz e sua amada,
Esse herói, cuja fama imortal é sabida.”
Source: Esta é a Ditosa Pátria Minha Amada
“I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.'
'You know that site is woefully inaccurate a lot of the time, right? Because anyone can change the information.'
'Yep. I'm the girl changing the information to make it woefully inaccurate.'
'So half the high schoolers around the country have you to thank for their failing grades on research papers.'
'Yes, sir. I'm practically a celebrity. Or I would be if it wasn't anonymous.”
Source: Lying Out Loud
“I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.”
Source: Three
“I, on the other hand, have no faith that your mission—whatever it is—can succeed. I’m content to bide my time here in this tiny, damp, worm-infested hovel and wait for the world to end. Cheers.”
Source: Songkeeper
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.”
Source: The English American
“I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office