Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — Brian Eno
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel
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
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. — Joseph Joubert
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the… — Hugh Laurie
Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I… — Alanis Morissette
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
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings.… — 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
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. — Steven Pinker
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating. — Will Self
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
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. — Lil Wayne
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
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of… — Albert Schweitzer
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

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