“People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingBookDifferentReasonWholeNaturalWalksWonderStreetsJudgingGayInstinctFingersNatural InstinctKilts Author:Kid Cudi
“Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFeelsMindHeartDoeHas BeensMightSufferingBornImaginationWonderExerciseBoundsRefuseEnvyMonstersNightmareScreamFewerPeersCagesHeart And MindTempted Author:J. K. Rowling
“There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life” PeopleThinkingWonderDimensionsDescribingWonder Of Life Author:Michael Tolcher
“People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.” PeopleIfsBigsMightUsedWonderAudienceFansLikesPearlsJamPearl Jam Author:Steve Diggle
“I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.” PeopleIfsWritingSometimesSongWonderMonths Author:Warren Haynes
“Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.” PeopleMindStatesWonderWorryCarHusbandExcitedMy HusbandState Of MindCertificatesNew Car Author:Rett MacPherson
“Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.” PeopleIfsPersonsSelfInterestWonderCuriosityInvestigationSelf Knowledge Author:Alan Watts
“People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.” PeopleLooksWonderTroubleExampleTheoryCopies Author:W. Edwards Deming
“I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.” PeopleKindHandsDiesWonderMiles Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsAbilityAnswersWonderStagePositionStupidityListsAdmireImpressCompulsionProminentLamaDalai Author:David Steindl-Rast
“To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.” PeopleDifferentMatterRealityTodayForgetHalfAcceptingWonderHellColorInvolvedPoliticianElectionAgreeMadDemocratStatementsPrimariesGiantsArroganceNever ForgetVersusPrimary Colors Author:Frank Luntz
“Even if a hundred ton boulder should fall, I would be safe! When I say this, everyone laughs and wonders how. No need to try to stop it, just move out of the way. You do not have a problem if you do not try to take it on yourself. Most people suffer because they try to take upon themselves things which they do not need to.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsShouldTryingProblemWould BeMovingSufferingFallWonderLaughingSafeHundredBoulders Author:Koichi Tohei
“I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and nouns are part of our hopeless dream that time will stop and we will not die. but it's not that way. So, why not celebrate verbs and the beloved's metamorphosis into other people or creatures or places - the same spirit but moving through things, not static.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantHelpingDreamMovingSpiritDiesLanguageWonderBecomingCreaturesTerrorCelebrateBelovedHopelessWhy NotStaticVerbsMetamorphosisNouns Author:Gregory Orr
“I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindUseCompanyWonderGoneStudyMarketingPhonesInnocentSellingCellsCorporationsCell PhoneAnthropologistsSelling OutNokia Author:Lily King
“You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!” PeopleWritingFactsBodyWonderMysteryMurderDescriptionLullsMurder Mysteries Author:Lily King
“In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.” PeopleCountryAmericaKnownWonderEconomicConcerned Author:John Kasich
“I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?” PeopleIfsNeedsStoriesSongWonderHeardNarrative Author:Craig Finn
“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it” PeopleIfsWayFeelsBookFeltWonderWrittenGenerationsApproachHolocaustIntimidatingMy GenerationGreat Book Author:Molly Antopol
“I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterChanceWonderOur LivesOffersOrdinaryWake UpExtraordinaryDisappearGrantedWho We AreBackdropTaking Things For Granted Author:Chris Abani
“I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsEndsStuffWonderMusic IsConnectionsAttachmentIntrigued Author:Ellie Goulding
“I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenYoungSufferingWonderBoysNormalAdultsProfoundAddictionNosesAlcoholismNormal Family Author:Brian Lindstrom
“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.” PeopleIfsKindSaidSometimesFacesCoursesNextHouseWonderFourDoorsLandSpecialMajorityWineDinnerSavingOccasionsClockIf I CouldCanadaFedsBreakfastBottlesThey SaidNext DayTentsBikingBottles Of WineSpecial Occasion Author:Pam Houston
“For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.” PeopleIfsWritingLongHappensWonderNovelPerspectiveBehaviorLong TimeCriticalTrendsKillersSerialsSerial KillerReally Long Author:Lucy Corin
“Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.” PeopleMadeHelpingInterestRoomsPayWonderPolicyMusicianPaidIndependentEntityRepresentingLobbyists Author:Erin McKeown
“There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.” PeopleWonderMissingMessagesLonelyKill MeLonely PeopleMiss Me Author:Sophie Blackall
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“Like people love their tote, they love their initial bangle, they love their C. Wonder belts, they love their cardigans and their striped top, and I'm really happy to be bringing that back and helping people get their 'Bee Happy' smoking slippers again.” PeopleHelpingWonderSmokingBeesBeltsHelping PeopleInitialsReally HappySlippersCardigansBanglesTotes Author:Brad Goreski
“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.” PeopleWellsMeanChildrenMadeRealityAgeDiesFatherPerfectWonderWifeInvolvedDrinkDiedFaultsVariousMiserableTragicPausesIgnoredAlcoholicsUnreliableEleanorDiseasedPerfect Father Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax breaks. What this did was make them permanent. It gives some certainty for people when they're filing taxes that they don't have to wonder if Congress is going to renew them year after year.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsWonderBreakTaxesCongressCertaintyPermanentPacksPackagesFilingTax Breaks Author:Susan Davis
“There were 31 teams that didn't think I was as good as the guys taken off the board. That's no disrespect to the talented players that they are, but I'm confident in my abilities and every time I go out there I want people to wonder why I wasn't on their board and why they didn't try to pick me up.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingGuyAbilityWonderTakenPlayerTeamPicksBoardsDisrespectPick MePick Me Up Author:Justin Cole
“Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.” PeopleThinkingPlayMightCausesResultsFictionWonderPossibilityAccountsNotesDetailsCarefulAppreciationDeeperMedicalCandidatesPreciseSymptomsAmbiguityBrillianceCholera Author:Philip Kitcher
“What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?” PeopleWonderPaintingTerribleConservativeScaryConfusing Author:John S. Dickerson
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsReasonAmericaWonderSuccessfulRadioConnectedBritainNorth AmericaTalk Radio Author:John Gimlette
“That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.” PeopleEnoughMightNumbersWonderInternetRetweet Author:Aaron Paul
“There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"” PeopleSaidWonderFineSnowOffendedCongregationTerminology Author:Michael Emerson
“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMeanSometimesBigsCertainFallUnderstandingChurchDealsCommonCitiesWonderEventsHappeningsConfusionFrustrationWorking ItRefugeBig DealAlways Working Author:Michael Emerson
“All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.” PeopleWritingYearsNextFeltWonderFourShouldersFour YearsBlocked Author:S. E. Hinton
“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.” PeopleRealFeelingsRealityJobsHouseWhiteTalkingWonderClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallPercentQuittingMiddle ClassWhite HouseUnemploymentGood JobNotableTalking Heads Author:Jim Clifton
“You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.” PeopleReasonWonderHonestColorBattleConstantAfrican AmericanAccomplishmentAccomplishedCapabilityStereotypeLatinoPresumptionEvaluation Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.” PeopleProblemWinningWonderPoliticianApproachRationality Author:Martin Schulz
“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.” PeopleIfsSometimesAgeSchoolLeftChurchBehindsWonderSkyBirdEnglandMovedRaisedCloudsEightDistractionKitesMethodists Author:Matthea Harvey
“There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.” PeopleStillsWonderTalentWestSurvivingEricGreat Talent Author:Ahmet Ertegun
“I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantThreePayWonderDrugProtectTaxesBillsChineseLoserQuartersCurrencyDealerDenominationsDrug Dealers Author:Michael Hudson
“I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.” PeopleHandsWonderExampleFairsTradeWestAidsOperationsReliefGoodsAffectedMore MoneyDeliveryFair Trade Author:Paul Kagame
“There are 160,000 of our men and women in Iraq that wonder whether there is going to be a hand grenade or a missile lobbed into where they are sleeping at night. Those are people who make a real sacrifice.” PeopleMenRealHandsNightSleepWonderSacrificeMen And WomenIraqMissilesGrenadeSleeping At Night Author:Mitt Romney
“I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsBelieveUsedLostWaitingQualityWonderInformationIntegrityFeel GoodBelieve In YourselfFedsAbout YourselfBelieve In You Author:Tyler Blackburn
“Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.” PeopleIfsBelieveFactsMightAmericaLeftWonderGreaterRegardCourtDon't BelieveSupremeDirtySupreme CourtDirty Words Author:John Cornyn
“What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.” PeopleThinkingMeanDoeWonderPiecesJudgingFitFantasticPope Author:Ralph Martin
“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.” PeopleMindDifferentSelfEyeVoiceWonderVisionCreativeDoubtSeeingExpressionPersonalityMirrorsPhotographCastsPonderingSelf-doubtVortexCreative Expression Author:Keith Murray
“When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.” PeopleWayI CanHelpingFeelingsFacesEmotionWonderStudyCruise Author:Aaron Bruno