Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
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
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. — David Hume
There is no art without contemplation. — Robert Henri
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true… — John Piper
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
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it… — Victor Hugo
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
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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 â€“ if I am going to be drowned â€“ 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
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands;… — Giacomo Leopardi

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