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Quotes About Pondering

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
~ Tahir Shah
And if my eyes dropped to your mouth, in what we all know is a universal signal that one is pondering a kiss, what would you do?
~ Julia Quinn
Sometimes I look back on what happened and wonder if it was some kind of stress-induced hallucination. The
~ Julianne MacLean
I don't know whether there are numbers. And you?
~ Julien Torma
Mas tudo num plano me-ta-fí-sico. Já que Horácio, as palavras... Quer dizer que as palavras, para Horácio... (uma questão já muito remoída em vários momentos de insônia).
~ Julio Cortazar
Å¢De ce atât de departe de zei? Poate fiindc? ne punem intrebarea.
~ Julio Cortazar
Ah well." Gignomai turned slowly round. "It's not often commented on, but when you stop and think, mercy is the biggest injustice of them all.
~ K.J. Parker
no le parece que tiene uno suficientes quebraderos de cabeza con lo que piensa de verdad para preocuparse encima de lo que habría podido pensar si lo hubiera pensado?
~ Fred Vargas
non cresce niente sul magniloquio, sul parviloquio o sul soliloquio. Su che cosa cresce qualcosa? Sul riflettiloquio.
~ Fred Vargas
when we're suffocated by the world's distractions, it can be easy to avoid God. But we're also quite capable of spending our time pondering the great questions instead of dealing with God. Thinking and talking about God is not communion with God. Only prayer is prayer. Both worldly distractions and theoretical cogitating can be used to avoid the challenge that ultimately faces each of us: that we are called to enter a direct, personal relationship with God,
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Las preguntas que empiezan con un <> son las más difíciles de contestar - dijo Dale - Al final acabas haciendo suposiciones, en vez de basarte en certezas.
~ Brandon Mull
So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.
~ Henning Mankell
He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks.
~ Henning Mankell
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But these fancies were not marked enough not not to be thrown off, and it is only in the light, or the gloom, I should rather say, of other and subsequent matters that they now come back to me.
~ Henry James
But that is another matter. There is really too much to say.
~ Henry James
It was always the case for him in these counsels that each of his remarks, as it came, seemed to drop into a deeper well. He had at all events to wait a moment to hear the slight splash of this one.
~ Henry James
I got to reminiscing about the past. I thought of all the things I might have said and done, which I hadn't said or done.
~ Henry Miller
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
~ Herman Melville
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
~ William Golding
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep.
~ Stephen Mitchell