Quotes About Pondering

Fenwick, sitting down to

The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.

Think When did it go wrong? The break-in? No, before that. The party? That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started. Zack? Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it? Before Zack. Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet. Before Ashley. Before tenth grade even began. And you're thinking, this can't be it.

I am saying nothing.

I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.

I sometimes derived the impression, from his manner, or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending in that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.

He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again.

The kind of humor I like is the thing which makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.

None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane.

NAUDSONCE Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider....

He suspected that when Feynman wanted to know what an electron would do under given circumstances he merely asked himself, "If I were an electron, what would I do?

skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his

His jaw went slack, the way an old man's does when his thought processes take him into blind alleys.

Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

waves of it going through my head. It was

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.