I Quotes
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“I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be a black man and a woman - how could that be different than the 43 other Presidents we've had?”
“I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.”
“I wonder who's kissing her now,
Wonder who's teaching her how.”
“I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.”
“I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.”
“I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“I wonder why bigots think their conservative and puritanical version of 'God' made the male body with a prostate gland that also co-incidentally 'just happens' to be a 'g-spot'?”
Source: Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
“I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?”
“I wonder why he shot me.”
“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
“I wonder why I fell for the thorn when
The rose is what I deserved”
Source: Charcuterie of Thoughts
“I wonder why it is that so many light-haired women smell of amber..."
"You mean amber perfume?" Daisy asked.
"No-their skin itself. Amber, and sometimes honey..."
"What on earth do you mean? the younger girl asked with a bemused laugh. "People don't smell like anything, except when they need to wash."
The pair regarded each other with what appeared to be mutual surprise. "Yes, they do," Lillian said. "Everyone has a smell... don't say you've never noticed? The way some people's skin is like bitter almond, or violet, while others..."
"Others have a scent like plum, or palm sap, or fish hay," Nettle commented.
Lillian glanced at him with a satisfied smile. "Yes, exactly!"
Nettle removed his spectacles and polished them with care, while his mind swarmed with questions. Was it possible that this girl could actually detect a person's intrinsic scent? He himself could- but it was a rare gift, and not one that he had ever known a woman to have.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?”
“I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.”
“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”
“I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.”
“I wonder why it still seems to be unusual for men to take significant parental leave, even though it is now possible to share the allowance between male and female parents? Are men worried they will be judged as lazy, as if childcare is not harder than work?”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono
“I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono
“I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism" Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.”
Source: Chance to Dance for You
“I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.”
“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.”
“I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.”
“I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”
Source: In the Miso Soup
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“I wonder why religion is so strict on homosexuality than massacre.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.”
Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“I wonder why she hides her pretty eyes, Behind those Wayfarers, it’s such a waste, Is it sadness or the neon lights?”
“I wonder why that is. I wonder if he hates me. I wonder if I hate him. I wonder so much that I forget to answer him, but it doesn’t matter. Because he’s already gone.”
Source: Love on the Brain
“I wonder why that is. I wonder why anything is.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.”
Source: Pleasant Day
“I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
“I wonder why the Ramsay estate is so unproductive?” Amelia mused as the carriage traveled alongside lush pastures. “The land in Hampshire is so fertile, one almost has to try not to grow something here.”
“But our land is cursed, isn’t it?” Poppy asked with mild concern.
“No,” Amelia replied, “not the estate itself. Just the titleholder. Which would be Leo.”
“Oh.” Poppy relaxed. “That’s fine, then.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem
To mock me now, all night, all night, and
Have I strayed among the cliffs here
They say, some day I'll fall
Down through the sea-bit fissures, and no more
Know the warm cloak of sun, or bathe
The dew across my tired eyes to comfort them.
They try to keep me hid within four walls.
I will not stay!”
Source: Personæ: The Shorter Poems
“I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.”
“I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually think there might be love around, we start laughing and pretending and hiding from it.”
Source: The Girl Who Invented Romance
“I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“I wonder why we hate the past so.”
Source: Of Literature
“I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?”
“I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.”
“I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.”
“I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?”
“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.”