Quotes About Pondering

My name?' said the old man, and the same distant sadness came into his face again. He paused. 'My name,' he said, '. . . is Slartibartfast.' Arthur practically choked. 'I beg your pardon?' he spluttered. 'Slartibartfast,' repeated the old man quietly. 'Slartibartfast?' The old man looked at him gravely. 'I said it wasn't important,' he said.

Why?' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.

thinking is not really something they are cut out for.

I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head - spooling.

What about life after death? What about death after life after death?

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

But afterwards you went on remembering.

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

In a case like this we have to take everything into account,' he said, noncommittally.

You forget," I said. "My calling obliges me to respect one quality above all others — the quality of mercy." "Well, I'm a just man. No one can deny that." I did not speak, and he said sharply: "Why don't you answer? A penny for your thoughts, man." I hesitated, then I decided to speak. "I was thinking," I said, "that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Watkins, S.B.,

Do you ever think about the fact that Jesus never said a mumbling word? You may have heard that phrase before, but how much have you ever thought about it?

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, Words, words, shuffling around in my head.

Do you wonder that they will

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

We have this idea that seriousness is of higher value. But surely there is more human pleasure and delight in time spent with humour than with pondering the great philosophical ideas.