Quotes About Pondering

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?

Con frecuencia, al terminar el trabajo, a uno le asalta el recuerdo de la más grande de las injusticias. Hablo de lo cotidiano de la vida. No es por la mañana, es al atardecer cuando eso invade las casas, nos invade a nosotros. Y si no se es así, no se es absolutamente nada. Se es: nada. Y siempre en todos los casos de todos los pueblos, se sabe.

une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)

it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly.

The only thing New Yorkers ignore more than nature is history. They have a habit of not spending a great deal of time pondering the history of their city. That is because of a sense that it has always been more or less the same, or, as Edmund Wilson, one of the more venerated New Yorker writers of that magazine's heyday, explained his waning enthusiasm for reading history in his old age, "I know more or less the kind of things that happen.

He stood pondering this flat, forthright declaration of anti-simianism on Miss Weedon's part. The notion that some people might not like monkeys was evidently entirely new to him; surprising, perhaps a trifle displeasing, but at the same time one of those general ideas of which one can easily grasp the general import without being necessarily in agreement. It was a theory that startled by its stark simplicity.

He continually thought of Lucy. But he did not think anything definite about her. He merely thought of her.

Sometimes why is the most important question.

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.

C?ci, deÈ™i era st?pânul lumii, nu era foarte sigur ce trebuia s? fac? în continuare, Dar avea el s? se gândeasc? la ceva".

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

God! Whose hand was I holding?

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it

LOL-inspiring thought: Wouldn't it

Has my watch stopped? No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don't look at them. Think of something else - anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.

turned to look out the windscreen

I've never understood the "sleep on it" thing. What, have a miserable, sleepless night, brooding on your problem, simply in order to do the thing you were going to do the night before—only now you've delayed by twelve hours. How is that a good idea?