I Quotes
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“I sometimes wonder
how greed has rusted
humanity and values”
“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”
“I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.”
“I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!”
“I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.”
“I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded in this wretched institution precisely because it is wretched. And calls us to be a part of it not to reform it or save it or control it in any way, but to simply love it.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.”
“I sometimes wonder if I shall ever have the courage to go out there again. I fear every day that I won't.'
Nesta's smile slid away. She considered her words before she said, 'I feel the same.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.”
“I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?”
“I sometimes wonder if straight people have any idea that getting to read books with queer sex scenes isn’t just erotic. It’s life-giving.”
“I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.”
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.”
“I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.”
“I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.”
“I sometimes wonder if we can truthfully call sex offenders fully human; of course they are biologically, but when ones own sexual satisfaction has become the governing principle to the extent that other people are only meat-puppets which act as objects to facilitate it, surely they lose that intangible yet recognisable quality we call "humanity" - the stranger who runs towards danger to help someone they have never met or who queues up in the rain to give a vital part of their body to some poor soul lacking a vital part.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.”
“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.”
“I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally had much less blood in it, and also that strangers seem uncomfortable when you question them about their childhood. But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it's the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“I sometimes wonder what people were thinking when they thought about a big problem and tackled it with little to no planning.”
“I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.”
“I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?”
“I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.”
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.”
Source: Letters and Journals
“I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.”
Source: The Answers
“I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.”
“I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.”
“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.”
“I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.”
“I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.”
“I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''”
“I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.”
“I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi”
“I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.”
“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”
“I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.”
“I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.”
“I soon felt that a bimch was rising on my knee, but speechless animal that I was, it was useless trying to make my displeased young master understand that I needed care and easing.
That is one of the hard parts of being a mere animal without voice to make a plaint or tell of suffering. Patience is the only thing that helps us, and few human beings imagine how much patience and endurance poor dumb animals have to teach themselves, in order to bear their aches and pains, and also to excuse the thoughtlessness of masters, young and old.”
Source: The Adventures of Pony Dexter
“I soon forgot storm in music.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.”
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.”
“I soon found if I stuck to set routines then my mind didn't wonder and I felt more comfortable, both at home and at work, everything had a place and suited my warehouse mentality perfectly. I was in control and that played a huge factor in my confidence too.”
Source: Mentality - A book for men
“I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.”
“I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min”
“I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching”