#wondered

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#his #house #lincoln #nothing #practically

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

#down #fine #found #friends #got

I just wondered how things were put together. ↗

— Claude Shannon

#i #just #put #things #together

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#humiliation #lift #people #pride #themselves

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#been #beginning #could #driven #first

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#concept #cool #how #i #moonlight

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

#day #ever #fact #fear #had

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else. ↗

— Edie Falco

#back #else #enjoyed #fall #had

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#became #god #him #i #less

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings