I Contemplate Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
— Cyril Connolly
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the…
— Martin Buber
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives…
— Bertrand Russell
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Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.
— Murtala Mohammed
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The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival…
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.
— Richard Selzer
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Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity,…
— Nicole Brossard
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I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in…
— David Nicholls
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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of…
— George Washington
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The minutes feel like hours when your away, I contemplate how my life would be without you when the waiting seems too hard to bare,…
— Jessica Barajas
Who Wrote These I Contemplate Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 I Contemplate Quotes as follows: