I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.”
“I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
“I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”
Source: The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]
“I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.”
Source: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
“I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?”
“I wonder how it's possible that Officer Williams can seem so composed. The air reeks with fear, from animals, birds, people.
From me.
And yet she doesn't seem worried about herself. Just other people. Weird, the way some humans stick their necks out for others. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it?”
Source: The One and Only Bob
“I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.”
Source: Wolfskin
“I wonder how it worked inside the Stasi: who thought up these blackmail schemes? Did they send them up the line for approval? Did pieces of paper come back initialled and stamped 'Approved': the ruining of a marriage, the destruction of a career, the imprisonment of a wife, the abandonment of a child? Did they circulate internal updates: 'Five new and different ways to break a heart'?”
Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
“I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “How many robots can you afford?” will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.”
“I wonder how long he's wanted this.
I wonder how long”
Source: Carry On
“I wonder how long he's wanted this.
I wonder how long I've wanted it.”
Source: Carry On
“I wonder how long I’ve been the victim of subliminal messaging from a fetus. I wonder if it goes this way for all pregnant mothers: At first we fully recognize the existential threat that is growing inside us, but gradually evolutionary imperatives overcome the conscious mind’s objection, and the will to reproduce overcomes the will to survive, and the needs of the baby overcome the needs of the host, until the only choice left for us women is to be willing, happy participants in our own destruction.”
Source: Chouette
“I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”
“I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?”
Source: Impulse
“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”
“I wonder how many books you have read?”
“I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.”
“I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?”
“I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.”
“I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?”
“I wonder how many moments like this I missed when my mind succumbed to my illness. I want to soak you in now that I can. I want to hear everything you’re saying, and I want to feel everything that you’re not.”
Source: Separate Things: A Memoir
“I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.”
Source: My life
“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
“I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.”
Source: Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“I wonder how many people look at their own lives as having an arc, and live their lives accordingly, given the built-in certainty of cancellation. We’re all going to get canceled someday. We just don’t know how many seasons we’ll be around for.”
Source: Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
“I wonder how many people would care about the world if they could do it anonymously. It’s fine to believe what we want, but it’s not fine to think people are less than us because they think different. Different is beautiful. Variety is gracious. We live in a time of two: you or me. It’s so cold.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.”
“I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.”
Source: Of Triton
“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.”
“I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.”
Source: Saint Maybe
“I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.”
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine too, read poetry too, kissed slowly with.”
“I wonder how many women know how to be a man's peace. I know of only one.”
“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”
Source: Number9Dream: A Novel
“I wonder how Merripen is faring,” Win said, her blue eyes soft with concern. Merripen, the cook-maid, and the footman had gone to the house two days earlier to prepare for the Hathaways’ arrival.
“No doubt he’s been working ceaselessly day and night,” Amelia replied, “taking inventory, rearranging everything in sight, and issuing commands to people who don’t dare disobey him. I’m sure he’s quite happy.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I wonder how Mr. Brinks would react if I told him my doctor was the surftastic cameraman he fist-bumped earlier in the week.”
Source: Remedy
“I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“I wonder how much of our humanity as individuals is compromised by the absence of the humanity of those around us who are themselves compromised by our absence?”
“I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.”
“I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any of it, because they don't need to remember. I'm the only one that hears the voice of the Turtle, the only one who remembers, because I'm the only one who stayed here in Derry. And because they're scattered to the four winds, they have no way of knowing the identical patterns their lives have taken. To bring them back, to show them that pattern....yes, it might kill some of them. It might kill all of them.”
Source: It
“I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.”
Source: Love Letters to the World
“I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I wonder how much time had passed between the moment God said "Let there be light" and the appearance of light? Sometimes, the mere difference of a single second between one event and another can be enough to turn our lives around one hundred and eighty degrees.”
Source: Swift as Desire