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Quotes About Wondering

Why?" Eric asked. Now the crux of the matter had been broached;
~ Philip K. Dick
The moon was climbing the sky, and the vast sweep of the milky way stretched above, every one of those minute specks a sun in its own system, lighting and warming planets, maybe, and life, maybe, and some kind of wondering being, maybe, looking out at the little star that was her sun, and at this world, and at Lyra.
~ Philip Pullman
I was traveling myself when I got my Fitbit, and because the tingle feels so good, not just as a sensation but also as a mark of accomplishment, I began pacing the airport rather than doing what I normally do, which is sit in the waiting area, wondering which of the many people around me will die first, and of what.
~ David Sedaris
Six eyes were questioning God.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
As author, she functions as "a midwife participating in the birth of a body of folklore,…the first wondering contacts with natural law." The myths she describes so accurately are in fact "alternative modes for perceiving reality," and never just condescending depictions of the quaint.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
~ Jostein Gaarder
My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
~ Taylor Sheridan
So, whazzit dis time, cizzen?
~ Unknown
was probably mad at all of them. She wondered
~ Unknown
I can't remember a thing about it.' 'Och, what a night I've had!' exclaimed poor Maggie. 'There was him lying below and you lying above, and me up and down the stair wondering which of you was the worst and what I ought to do, wondering what kind of queer drug Neil had given you and what like you would be in the morning.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I wonder, sometimes, as we wander that graveyard, what will remain of me someday. Am I creating a legacy that matters, that will last? Will someone stand at my grave one day, wondering who I was?
~ Unknown
As in the case of all first dates, only 70% of their brains was talking, listening, and responding to what the other was saying. The other 30% was wondering..
~ Liz Tuccillo
Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered. Then he recalled who it was who had a child. A child, Noirot had a child!
~ Loretta Chase
It was a large, tawny hound, smoke-gray in color. One of its dangling ears had been ripped and was almost healed. Tom looked wonderingly at it. Its outward confirmation was similar to the Plott hounds that made up old Bill's pack, but it was not a Plott hound. Its jowls were very heavy, and overhung the lower jaw in leathery folds. On the sad-looking face, tan relieved the hounds smoky-gray color.
~ Unknown
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
~ Jodi Picoult
When someone is staring at you, you secretly get self conscious and wonder what they're thinking.
~ Unknown
Constantly wondering why your life isn't a reality show.
~ Unknown
Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.
~ Plato
The waitress headed back to the kitchen, shaking her head, wondering what on earth could be funny about pea soup…
~ R.L. Stine
Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was to consider that I must be the victim of a joke.
~ Denis Johnson
Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl? I went still redder as he shouted with laughter. With a broad grin, he said Many times, madonna. But alas, it does not help. As you see. Ribbit.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Outlander QOTD Claire and Master Raymond. Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl? I went still redder as he shouted with laughter. With a broad grin, he said Many times, madonna. But alas, it does not help. As you see. Ribbit.
~ Diana Gabaldon
small dish of honey had been provided with his toast, and he was dipping a dubious finger into it, wondering whether he ought to try dabbing it into his eye, when at last the flap opened again and his brother was with him. "Did
~ Diana Gabaldon