Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

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
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

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