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“A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.”

“If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?”

Ifs Wonder Saws Credit Wow Scratches

Author:Dan Miller

“Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts.”

People Ifs Wonder Support Gay Gay Marriage Hints Haircuts John Kerry Support Gay Marriage

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

Ifs Way Home Would Be Fall Water Wonder Amount Travel Unnecessary Cliffs Wrong Way Niagara Niagara Falls

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.”

Ifs Fall Mistake Wonder Fall Into Place

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.”

“I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Happens Wonder Creativity Know How Seeing Inspired Things Happen

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”

People Ifs Different Whole Light Loses Wonder Circumstances Normal Doctors Perfectly Normal Different Meanings Approaching Death

Author:Joan Didion

“The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.”

Ifs World Spirit Universe Wonder Wonderful Filled Terror Engines Immense Magnificent Amusement

Author:George Santayana

“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.”

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.”

Ifs Feels Mind Play School Guy Games Talking Wonder Player Football Fine Please Seasons Defense Shoulders League Avoiding Gears Old School Helmet Sloppy Cupcakes Tackling Nfl Players

Author:Phillip Daniels

“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Sometimes Black White Wonder Audience Pieces Stage Movement Messages Dance Crowds Applause

Author:Judith Jamison

“I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.”

Ifs Beautiful Wonder Harder

Author:China Machado

“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”

Ifs Men Made Important Form Used Interest Wonder Saws Department Shopping Worthwhile

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.”

Ifs World Way Humans Energy Deals Race Wonder Land Rivers Human Race Lakes Our Society Time And Energy

Book:Buddhism Plain and Simple

Source: Buddhism Plain and Simple

“Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.”

Ifs Littles Might Guy Wonder Radio Controlled Vehicle

Author:Ed Helms

“The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It's a big challenge, and you can't help wondering if you're doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.”

Ifs Feels Helping Bigs Parent Challenges Wonder Minutes Bases Instinct Feels Right Trust Your Instincts Big Challenges

Author:Emily Deschanel

“If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?”

Ifs Persons Young Artist Wonder Jazz Pops Hey Opera Vague Young Artists Multimedia

Author:Laurie Anderson

“I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.”

Ifs Kind Art Bigs Wonder Creativity Universal Bigger Big Things Morphing

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Book Character Forget Wonder Love You Materials Losing Critics Track Hearing Publish Trance Enamored Censoring

Author:Allegra Goodman

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.”

People Ifs Men Children Book Literature Names Wonder Written Special Determined Labels Bother Men Women Sentimentality Children's Books Sidelines Children's Literature Kangaroos

Author:P. L. Travers

“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.”

Ifs Men Should Powerful Wonder Rich Dog He Man Gratitude Benefits Charity Inferiors Favour Scrap

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.”

People Ifs Two Individual Wonder

Book: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

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

“... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be okay. No wonder people pay so much attention to knowing the rules, to knowing the right people, to not making waves, to never making errors -- to not risking, trying, innovating.”

People Ifs Trying Pay Attention Wonder Knowing Okay Errors Wave Core Behave Contracts Balanced Powerlessness Unwritten

Author:Judith M Bardwick

“I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.”

Ifs Mind Children I Can Remember Young Wonder Normal Bitter Infant Prodigies

Author:W.N.P. Barbellion

“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.”

Ifs Men Needs Enough Wealth Poor Wonder Virtue Regard Fortune Wicked Good Man Prosperous Good Fortune Badness Wicked Man

Author:Sallust

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

Ifs Sometimes Facts Wonder Hero Suicide Meaning Of Life Heroic Suicidal Guardian Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Vaclav Havel

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Sometimes Wonder Laughing Crazy Depression Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Notches

Author:Martha Manning

“If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.”

Ifs Philosophy Wonder Teaching Frustration Pedagogy Teaching Learning

Author:Lee S Shulman

“My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Courses Wonder Ought Agree Males Defense Colleagues

Author:Nancy Kassebaum

“People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'”

People Ifs Feels Realizing Talking Wonder

Author:Alan Watts

“I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.”

Ifs Games Sin Wonder Killing Killing Yourself Things You Can Control

Book:Gray

Source: Gray

“If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Looks Feelings Heaven Stars Wonder Doubt Grace Capable Flow Endure Look Up Mindless Power Of God

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.”

Ifs Littles Mother Wonder

Author:Stevie Wonder

“Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.”

People Ifs World Love Life Feels Whole Life Is Values Lost Dark Answers Powerful Wonder Connections Suicide Whole World Commit Love Life Severe One Love

Author:Keith Ablow

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.”

People Ifs Wells Persons Left Wonder Groups Various Aids Minorities Racist Comment Minority Groups

Author:John Rocker

“I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.”

Ifs Heart Half Wonder Boys My Heart Scary Cracks Chests Splits My Boys

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.”

Ifs Way Age Remember Chance Loss Forget Wonder Adults Gains Tied Take A Chance Cautious Havoc

Book:A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

Source: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.”

Ifs Sometimes Moments Life Is Wonder Stuck Sometimes I Wonder

Book:Love, Aubrey

Source: Love, Aubrey

“We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.”

People Ifs Ideas War Sometimes Wonder Hearing No Idea Statistics

Author:Eve Ensler

“You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.”

Ifs Needs Said Use Would Be Language Wonder Tolerance Restaurants Ads Homeless They Said Transient Bureaucrats Bigots

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Book Feelings Wanted Film Can Do Challenges Wonder Crazy Majors Studios Capture Wow Twilight Just Being Rejected Being Crazy Crazy Love

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.”

Ifs Men Stills War Ends Shows Would Be Young Wonder Sacrifice Conflict Areas Young Man Not Sure Engaged Great War Armed Conflict

Author:Russell Crowe

“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”

“If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.”

Ifs I Can Wonder Serious Amount Drug Quiet Manic

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.”

People Ifs World Needs Persons Rooms Wonder Worry Perspective Importance

Author:Myles Munroe

“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”

Ifs World Want Able Film Lost Hours Powerful Wonder Painting Tools Staring

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio