Contemplate Quotes

341 Contemplate quotes by 293 unique authors

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter… — Johnny Depp
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — Brian Eno
To contemplate is to look at shadows. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate… — Joyce Carol Oates
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but… — Steven Pinker
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may… — Paul Theroux
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;… — Henry David Thoreau
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work.… — Helen Fisher
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back… — Ian Mcewan
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing… — Rachel Carson
And we came forth to contemplate the stars. — Dante Alighieri
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people… — Deepak Chopra
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or… — Virginia Woolf
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau
If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in… — Stephen Crane
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any… — Mahatma Gandhi
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to… — Unknown Author
In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on… — Amin Maalouf
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction. — Alan Lightman

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