Contemplated Quotes

79 Contemplated quotes by 73 unique authors

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate… — Marcus Aurelius
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. — E. M. Forster
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive… — Ian Mcewan
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort… — Victor Hugo
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever,… — Anne Michaels
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible. — Paulo Coelho
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do… — Lauren Bacall
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in… — Maria V. Snyder
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false… — Cormac McCarthy
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw… — E. M. Forster
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their… — Aristotle
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated… — William Wordsworth
I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that,… — Walter Kohn
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way… — George Smoot
I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time. — Karan Johar
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be… — Steve-O
In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind… — Richard Helms
Once a man has imagined the immensity of space, has contemplated evolution and the magnitude of its duration, and has walked through the mighty boulders… — Franklin P Jones
Remember that you are making your own problem, so before you do something you should first carefully contemplated. — Innah Delos Angeles

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