With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
