I Quotes
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“I wonder love can have already set
In dreams, when we've not met
More times than I can number on one hand.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.”
“I wonder," Marcia said. "If you would consider being my apprentice?”
Source: Magyk
“I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.”
“I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.”
“I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.”
“I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.”
“I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.”
“I wonder now if hope is the most powerful magic of all.”
Source: So This is Love
“I wonder now if you ever remember... Whether your June is all turned to December... Gone are those winters of chats and of dances... Gone the aroma of life's young romances... Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance... Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.”
“I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.”
“I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.”
Source: The Rings of Saturn
“I wonder now, with everything said and done, if things would have been different had I remembered what the Tree had told me. Would I have made the same decisions, the same mistakes? Where would I be, had I remembered? Had I listened? I have learned in my short time here on this world that we as humans are all capable of a great many things, our minds able to process so much. Too much, really.
But our greatest curse, our greatest folly, if you will, is our ability of hindsight.
Of regret.
Oh, Seven. How I wish I would have known.”
Source: Burn
“I wonder, now- yes, why not- unusual combination- holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple."
Harry took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on the walls. Hagrid whooped and clapped and Mr. Ollivander cried, "Oh, bravo! Yes, indeed, oh, very good. Well, well, well... how curious... how very curious..."
He put Harry's wand back into its box and wrapped it in brown paper, still muttering, "Curious... curious..."
"Sorry," said Harry, "but what's curious?"
Mr. Ollivander fixed Harry with his pale stare.
"I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather- just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother- why, its brother gave you that scar."
Harry swallowed.
"Yes, thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember.... I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter.... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things- terrible, yes, but great.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“I wonder,” said Angelina, sitting on the loveseat next to Violet, “if he is mentally fragile.”
“What do you mean?” said Violet.
“He fought in the war,” replied Angelina. “He might fall apart, fly off the handle, go off the rails…”
Source: Farewell My Life: Buona Notte Vita Mia
“I wonder,” said Crusher slowly, “if the fate of human beings is predetermined by the stars, or do they forge their own destiny? Is there really such a thing as ‘luck’? And what exactly do we mean by the concept of ‘free will’?”
Which were all interesting questions, but perhaps not entirely helpful right at that particular moment.”
“I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me?”
Source: The Two Towers
“I wonder,' said Gertrude dreamily, 'if some great blessing, great enough for th eprice, will be the meed of all our pain? Is the agony in which the world is shuddering the birth-pang of some wondrous new era? Or is it merely a futile
struggle of ants
In the gleam of a million million of suns?
We think very lightly, Mr. Meredith, or a calamity which destroys an ant-hill and half its inhabitants. Does the Power that runs the universe think us of more importance than we think ants?'
'You forget,' said Mr. Meredith, with a flash of his dark eyes, 'that an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend. To the infinitely little an ant is of as much importance as a mastodon.”
Source: Rilla of Ingleside: A Tale of Youth and War in the Glen
“I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.”
Source: Deaths For The Ladies
“I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it".”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“I wonder, sometimes, if the Continentals were like shoals of fish, & the slightest flick of one fish caused dozens of others to follow suit, until the entire shimmering cloud had changed course.
And were the Divinities the sum of this cloud? An embodiment, perhaps, of a national subconscious? Or were they empowered by the thoughts & praises of millions of people, yet also yoked to every one of those thoughts – giant, terrible puppets forced to dance by the strings of millions of puppeteers.
This knowledge, I think, is incredibly dangerous. The Continentals derive so much pride & so much power from having Divine approval … but were they merely hearing the echoes of their own voices, magnified through strange caverns & tunnels? When they spoke to the Divinities, were they speaking to giant reflections of themselves?”
Source: City of Stairs
“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.”
“I wonder sometimes if the thoughts that flock my nightmares are abandoned memories coming home to roost.”
Source: All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
“I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?”
“I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.”
“I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.”
“I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.”
“I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.”
Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.”
“I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.”
“I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.”
Source: Parents and children
“I wonder the world desperate to find the edge of myself…
But it seems that a human soul is always “to be continued”…”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“I wonder the world desperate to find the edge of myself…
Existence is an art.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?”
“I wonder wether it is possible to stay delirious and in love when you've been together for a long time.”
Source: The Cake Shop in the Garden
“I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.”
Source: Complete Poems
“I wonder what Ali thought about Wallace? How did he view this tall, gawky, bearded eccentric man? Did Ali defend Wallace when villagers thought he was an evil demon? Did he secretly giggle when he heard Wallace speak Malay with a strong British accent? Did he gossip about his boss with other locals? Why was Wallace enthralled to discover a new beetle or ant? Did Ali see his time with Wallace as a chance to better himself, a grand adventure? Or was his work with Wallace simply a job?”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.”
“I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.”
“I wonder what ants do on rainy days?”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”
“I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority
steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.”
“I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?”
“I wonder what brought us here?
The analogy of our situation or the void we want to fill?
Perhaps, our previous journey was a complete sham; both stuck in the atrocities of the past; impotent to move on from our former grievances and after all this time, we meet again. Maybe, this time it will be different; maybe this time we won't repeat the same mistakes we made; maybe this time we'll do better; maybe this time we'll be better.
But what if we didn't? What if this contemporary start of our new era destroyed us now more than ever? The question begs itself and the rest is silence!”
“I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."”
“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.”
Source: Little Failure: A Memoir