Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. — Edgar Degas
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God. — Brother Lawrence
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or,… — Mao Zedong
They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate… — Lionel
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life… — Norman Cousins
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and… — Thomas Traherne
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a… — Muso Soseki
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless… — Billy Tauzin
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at… — Carolyn Heilbrun
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

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