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I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?


Lionel Shriver

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LIONEL SHRIVER He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Have you ever wondered why Cinderella's stepmother was bitter and greedy? Have you ever wondered why...
MARYALLE TAN Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...
VERA BRITTAIN I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it...
SAADAT HASAN MANTO ...
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DEYTH BANGER I have often wondered why, so many people passing by, can walk right by and not ask "why ?"
KATHERINE DIVOLIS I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, new...
MARIA SHRIVER I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change...
MADELEINE THIEN I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
ANDY RICHTER He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.
JAIME NELSON In that moment, he wondered how he'd ever believed she was anything less than spectacular.
MELISSA LANDERS I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.
BECCA FITZPATRICK I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.
JERRY WEST I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my da...
DAN AUERBACH Well when you cant sleep well you cant dream and when you cant dream well whats life mean
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
ELIZABETH GILBERT Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the gi...
DEBORAH ROBERTS Why are you so pissed off?" he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actu...
KARINA HALLE I was totally discombobulated. I wondered why was I here in Rochester and when the community embrace...
AARON BAKER Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
DOLLY PARTON None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whis...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whis...
THOMAS CARLYLE I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd thi...
SARAH DESSEN I don't know why we play so badly one night and so well the next. I don't know.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the las...
BERNHARD LANGER I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anyt...
ARTHUR ASHE Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple...
BELLA ANDRE I would have tried to tell her that this was a relationship that had no future. But have you ever tr...
BARBARA WALTERS Well, I think people are sort of scared because gas is so expensive.
DEAN JONES Last week we were sort of embarrassed at what [San Diego] was able to accomplish, and I think guys s...
ROSEVELT COLVIN Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who th...
NEIL GAIMAN I wish that people realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to ...
TILLIE COLE Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.
NEIL GAIMAN Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were jus...
KAYA MCLAREN Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it wo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with suc...
KATHERINE KELLY I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains ...
GEORGE HERBERT Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their...
GEORGE CARLIN I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
MARC NEWSON Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.
DAVID ICKE The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung o...
WIZ KHALIFA It's so hard, it's almost the impossible - not talking about anything. I don't abide well to gag ord...
JENNIFER ANISTON And death at Nesta’s hands … I wondered if they’d have to invent a new word for killing when s...
SARAH J. MAAS When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' becau...
ALEK WEK I was going to after-Oscar parties. I was mingling with the Hollywood crowd. It's really easy to bec...
APOLO ANTON OHNO I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
SARAH DESSEN After I'd won the Melody Maker award, things were sort of confused. I was already with John, he was ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.
INIO ASANO Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Marital relationship is an inbuilt DNA deposited inside man,so even when marrying a devil,the excite...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Exo went pale when he realized what we were dealing with. Well, what he thought we were dealing ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA First time I tried to 'egg beater,' I thought I'd drown. I was always bored with swimming. It was ne...
FOREL DAVIES I was confident going into the axel, even though it didn't work so well in practice. When I fell, I ...
STEPHANE LAMBIEL The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, ... But I'm a very diff...
JANE FONDA So why would I do that sort of stuff?
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI We've got talent in every area of the field. The first 11 and the next seven or eight guys who sit o...
MARK WILSON All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—
So why do I hate my life?
ORSON SCOTT CARD Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every h...
SKYE WARREN Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was l...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The slope was bad (in the second run). When I came to the first gate I was scared, but then I just t...
JANICA KOSTELIC I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve for...
RASMENIA MASSOUD I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sor...
JOHN GREEN Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican excep...
ALAN FURST I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, beca...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA We're sort of playing a hunch as much as anything. He's played New Jersey well, and our last good ga...
TOM RENNEY The idea came to me when I was doing a show and saw this girl sitting down front and she was wearing...
MARTI DODSON People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people withou...
BRIAN TRACY Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.
DIONNE WARWICK She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I love the development of our music, that's what I really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried...
BOB MARLEY This was a great experience for them to interact with, and get to know, people from around the world...
JASON BAGWELL Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I wondered about the kids who everyone had decided were bad. The lost ones, the problems. What becam...
AVERY SAWYER There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all thes...
JOHN GLOVER He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
WOODY ALLEN We want to get the biggest names we can. We want to pack Shriver, We want our speakers to pack Shriv...
ARASH MASSOUDI I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so...
BITSIE TULLOCH I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The n...
MANUEL PUIG I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly wit...
JAMES CAAN I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLIN Women have whats called the "friendzone" men have whats called "how do I get out of the friendzone" ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.
MARTIN GORE I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextric...
TIM DALY Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't h...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT He was motivated. He was coming home, he had about 500 people coming to see him today, so he wanted ...
BYRON SCOTT When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.
STEPHEN RICHARDS I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.
ELLE FANNING I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, t...
JENS LEKMAN Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, ev...
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KARRIE WEBB Nobody... took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women w...
GERTRUDE B. ELION When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up a...
LINDA EVANGELISTA I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skill...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Stand back and look at the big picture. Have you ever stopped and wondered why people shop at your b...
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LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re...
LIONEL BARBER You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
LIONEL JOSPIN It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher...
LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING