I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“I wonder if things would have turned out differently, if Ihadn’t taken this trail.”
Source: Bear Me in Mind
“I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.”
“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but you’re no longer a part of it.”
Source: Biome
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
“I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.”
“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”
“I wonder if those in the scientific community claiming to understand the complex causes and effects of climate change impacting our 4.5 billion-year-old planet would be so generous as to spare a few scientists to conclude the decades old debate, also within the scientific community, as to whether eggs are good or bad for us?”
“I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'”
“I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)”
Source: I'm Not Really Here
“I wonder if vampire's eyebrows can grow back.”
“I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in”
“I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?”
“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”
“I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.”
“I wonder if we feel those transformations, if we can sense our kinetic energy fizzling away into nothingness. I wonder if we hear it, if it sounds like the symphony or if it sounds like screaming.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.”
“I wonder if we have to suspend our sharpness to love someone, to give ourselves that fuzzy gentleness that is so necessary. I mean, I don’t think we have to use the smart part of ourselves to love. Does that mean we suspend our judgment when we love someone? I think so, and I think that is why it is so hard for the watchful to love.”
“That’s lust you’re describing,” he said”
“I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?”
“I wonder if we're all just echoes of the people we might have been if life had unfolded differently.”
Source: Daisy Darker
“I wonder if we're only our true selves as children, before life starts to go wrong.”
Source: The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
“I wonder if we would ever switch back to old photo albums we got printed from photography shops. A Kodak KB10 camera with 36 photos worth of film roll, waiting for it to complete before sending the photos for developing.
Nothing was instant, it would sometimes take months to compete a film and weeks to get the prints.
The joy of seeing the photos, the disappointment to find a ruined image due to shaky hands.
Even after having lots of camera and GBs of memory cards will never bring the same feeling.”
“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”
“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
Source: Every Fifteen Minutes
“I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.”
“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”
“I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.”
Source: Genuine Lies
“I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.”
“I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.
I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.”
Source: First Year
“I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it -- viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable.”
“I wonder if you know how special you are; I wonder if you know how precious you are; I wonder if you know how lucky I am to have you in my life; I love you so much.”
“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name.”
“I wonder if you need Athalar's power for teleporting.'
'I can't tell if that's an insult or not,' Bryce said.
Hunt lifted his brows. 'In that way?'
'If my powers only work if my big, tough male helps me out-'
'It can't be romantic?' Hunt demanded.
Bryce huffed. 'I'm an independent female.'
'All right,' Hunt said, laughing softly. 'Let's just say that I'm like some magic token in a video game and when you... use me, you level up.'
'That's the dorkiest thing you've ever said,' Bryce accused, and Hunt sketched a bow.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“I wonder if you would come and sleep in the night with me. And talk.”
“I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.”
Source: Plain Truth
“I wonder if your heart skips a beat when you hear my name like mine does when I hear yours.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.”
“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”
Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel
“I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
“I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.”
“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?”
“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?”
Source: Vanity Fair
“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“I WONDER IT HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO
Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me
Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me
I hope heaven got a gay ghetto
Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame
Don`t feel too brown or black
Or femme or phat
Don`t get shame for being free
Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d
You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus
Shiet, he probably already got a picure
with white jesus
signed and framed on his wall
Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker”
Source: Sad Girl Poems
“I wonder, Leila... would they have stopped if they knew how terrible I felt? How miserable I was every time they fought? If they understood that, for me, the world ended each time their voices rose, would it have made a difference? Or was kindness never part of their plan?”
Source: To Hell With You