Quotes About Contemplation

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I don't think in terms of projects.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

I love watching England and what they are doing. But I can promise you I've not thought about anything that high.

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

One minute I was with Tottenham, the next came a proposal from China. I took a step back to think about it and decided it was the right time to move.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.

Most people are so occupied by the external world that they don't realize that there is a very rich world within themselves. In this stage, we relax, let go, and learn to appreciate that we have an internal universe.

Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. "I wither slowly in thine arms," he read. "Here at the quiet limit of the world," and repeated to himself: "Here at the quiet limit of the world. Here at the quiet limit of the world"… as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer.

Thus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines, a matter of inches, which outside the room, out of sight of the studious officers, may engulf the past, present and future in ruin or life. She was a symbol to herself then, lacking the life of both child and woman; victory and defeat were changes of pin and line; she knew nothing of war.

Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn't married and trying to get out of it—though I never felt anything of the kind myself—but to get rid of one wife and take up with another immediately, is beyond all reason.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

People like us can't adopt whole theories, as you did. If we can do the next thing, and have an hour a day to think in, we can accomplish marvels, but as far as any high-handed scheme of blind dominance is concerned—we'd just make asses of ourselves.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?