There always comes a time when one must choose between…

“In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable. Without this, little can be achieved, either…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

— George Gillespie

You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which…

— Vincent de Paul

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

“Contemplation over action teaches that it is better to behold God than to try and imitate his power.”

— Daniel Schwindt

“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it.”

— Melanie Benjamin

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

“Contemplation + action = breakthrough”

— Lada Ray

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than…

— Francis Bacon

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girls heart

— Niall Horan

“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and…

— Cari Linneaus

The problem with a man bag is that it's called a man bag.

— A. A. Gill

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. -Niall Horan

— One Direction

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is…

— Jean Renoir