Contemplate Quotes

341 Contemplate quotes by 293 unique authors

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate… — Lionel
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and… — Thomas Traherne
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a… — Muso Soseki
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at… — Carolyn Heilbrun
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
We become what we contemplate. — Plato
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. — Charles Dickens
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate. — Juliana Hatfield
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth… — E F Schumacher
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together. — Roger Ebert
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it,… — Pete Postlethwaite
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the… — Paul Westerberg
Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else… — Frederick Lenz
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. — Sylvester McCoy
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of… — Saint Augustine
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow? — Mata Amritanandamayi
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a… — Bernard Levin
The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the… — Eugenio Montale
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so… — Richard Louv
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the… — Robert M. Gates
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral… — Todd Gitlin
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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