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“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...] I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.”

Ifs Heart Littles Sound Wonder Beats What If Speakers Microphones

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.”

People Ifs World Kind Made Would Be Memories Wonder Happened Sweet Things Happen Bad Things Erase Bad Things Happen

Author:Sue Halpern

“I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.”

Ifs Government Wonder Calling Ashamed Fascists

Author:Medea Benjamin

“You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.”

People Ifs Wonder Annoying Shallow Envious

Author:Guy Pearce

“I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.”

Ifs Persons Hands Wonder Rude Deaf

Author:Demetri Martin

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Wonder Intelligent Sometimes I Wonder

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?”

Ifs Two Wonder Dinner Chickens Lunch

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"”

People Ifs Two Done Earth Wonder Class Divided

Author:Winston Churchill

“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”

Ifs Knows Mind Littles Seems Spiritual Simple Company Wonder Nice Sky Type Moon Devil Asking Details Guidance Orthodox Witch Spiritual Guidance Good Witch

Author:Sybil Leek

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.”

People Ifs Firsts Done Bigs Seems Would Be Jobs Difficult Wonder Impossible Tasks Down And Islands Sat Contemplating Bugs

Book:Selected papers

Source: Selected papers

“But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.”

Ifs Men Facts Wonder Land Crime Judging Responsible Committed Proof Trials Sufficient

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.”

People Ifs World Would Be Beautiful Order Perfect Wonder Alive Streets Advantage Admiration Quarters New Orleans Cemetery Business World Levees

Author:Mark Twain

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.”

Ifs Writing Able Song Wonder

Author:Emmylou Harris

“A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wonder Knowing Cutting Discipline Scene Shots Finals Focused

Author:Jeremy Bolt

“When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.”

Ifs Giving Believe Persons Sometimes Character Lines Talking Wonder Happened Strange Terrible

Author:Vincent Cassel

“It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Littles I Can Kids Causes Goal Can Do Hours Wonder Stupid Victory Standing Graves Winner Just One Accomplished Someday Flags I Can Do This Very Stupid Personal Victory

Author:Kevin Smith

“I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.”

People Ifs Faces Used Dies Wonder Stones Used To Be Kicks Pushing Keep Going Rolling Classical Music Rolling Stones Envelopes Pushing The Envelope

Author:Billy Joel

“Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.”

Ifs Men Energy Behinds Wonder Television Devil Admire Redemption Satan Pale Underwear

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.”

Ifs Believe Sometimes I Believe Wonder Violence Admire Aggression

Author:Fred Rogers

“I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.”

Ifs Want Mean Party Wonder Cutting Republican Right Now Taxes Selling Torture Republican Party Tax Cuts Branded

Author:Chris Matthews

“Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.”

Ifs Needs Giving Reason Helping Stories Religious Compassion Wonder Morality Stranger Creeds Pauses Tested Psychologist Samaritans

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.”

Ifs World Different Would Be Humanity Next Wonder This World Frontiers

Book:Walking on Water: A Novel

Source: Walking on Water: A Novel

“Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.”

Ifs Ideas Self Matter Whole Problem Wonder Serious Flight Disgusting Repression Health Problems

Author:Colin McGinn

“Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.”

Ifs Way Art Facts Life Is Wonder Strange Illusion Assumption Revelations Delusion Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Stills Human Beings Wonder Doubt Evolution Long Time

Author:Edward Albee

“The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.”

Ifs Long Real Remember Wonder Enemy Disease Bones Fats Extras Chickens Makers Bites Pie Greedy Pizza Cherries Steak Fried Chicken Cherry Pie

Author:Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

“If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me.”

Ifs Needs Giving Stills Night Wonder Give Me Every Night

Author:Katie Price

“If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.”

Ifs Trying Wonder Hair Red Juice Washing Champagne Blonde Red Hair Cranberries

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.”

Ifs Thinking Heaven Wonder Missing Expectations Rain Wings Gods Will Dip

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.”

Ifs Leader Wonder

Author:Andy Stanley

“If you don't ask, you don't get it”

Ifs Asks Wonder God Never Blinks Powerful Music

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.”

People Ifs Ends Wanted Wonder Please Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Tony Blair

“I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.”

Ifs World Should Names Wonder Trump Brave Naked Giants Butterfly Towers Interiors Priceless Toads Scorpions Wonder Of The World Taj Mahal Mahal Mausoleum Boardwalks

Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.”

Ifs Men Needs Wonder Generations Raised Another Woman

Author:Brad Pitt

“I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.”

Ifs World Art Different Would Be School Wonder Art School Turned Down

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Wonder Worry Happened Information Amount Conversation Picks Motive Astonishing Think Of You Worry Less

Author:Pamela Druckerman

“If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.”

Ifs World Heart Whole Eye Wonder Fire Rage Kingdoms Forests Flames Sparks Discontent Illusory Disenchantment Forest Fires Unveiling

Book:The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.”

Ifs Able Wonder Society

Author:Demetri Martin

“I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.”

Ifs Looks Wonder Stupid Like You Lonely Appropriate Gothic Goth

Author:Demetri Martin

“If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?”

Ifs Girl Wonder Blood Months Diamond

Author:Chelsea Handler

“If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.”

Ifs Want Play Wonder If I Could Superhero Wonder Woman

Author:Fiona Gubelmann

“Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.”

Ifs World Humans Self Sometimes Interest Human Beings Wonder Worry Profit Saving Self Centered Goodwill Camouflage Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Enele Sopoaga

“I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Hard Wonder Figures Impulse Working It Rehearsal

Author:William Fichtner

“I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.”

Ifs Book Happens President Wonder Ought Advantage Publishers Dropping

Author:Rick Moody

“There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.”

Ifs Has Beens Certain Energy Causes Wonder My Family Murder Suicide Primaries

Author:Rose McGowan

“As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.”

Ifs Whole Wonder Window Raises Global Warming Pie Hobos

Author:Dana Gould

“I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.”

Ifs Trying Wonder Subjects Obsessive

Author:Gary Gulman

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