Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die. — Mike Ness
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
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation… — Victor Hugo
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. — Amanda Lindhout
When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor… — Harry S. Truman
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
The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even… — Mark Zandi
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
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. — Juvenal
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,… — Simone Weil
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
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the… — Clive James
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
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious… — Bertrand Russell
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

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