Quotes About Contemplate

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

When we contemplate what happened in Cambodia, we are looking not at some exotic horror story but into darkness, into the foul places of our own souls.

he's smiling, a slight, complicit smile, almost tender. This smile devastated me for a long time after, whenever I happened to look at this photograph. It upsets me even now as I write these lines and contemplate the image, resting on my desk, right next to my keyboard. Because now I know. I know that Thomas consented to this single picture only because he knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.

Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

On Telegraph, she stopped him in front of Walgreens, put the sack into his hands, a finger to her lips. "I'll come back." He was left to contemplate the sidewalk, full of listless earring vendors ready with their piercing guns.

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

Think it over, think it under.

The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.

I wasn't a film buff.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Und dann und wann ein Weiser Elephant

I don't want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do?

I don't want to do anything but look and listen and smell; what else is there to do?

THE FOUR REFLECTIONS Precious Human Birth The first of the mind-changing reflections contemplates the preciousness of our human birth.

To think of God as an anthropomorphic being or a sort of glorified man with all the whims, eccentricities and peculiarities of man is neurotic infantilism and absolutely absurd. God is personal to you in this sense: You can at this very moment contemplate love, peace, harmony, joy, beauty, wisdom, power and guidance, and you will begin to express these qualities because you become what you contemplate.

Jesus argues that what should be contemplated is not the cutting short of these particular lives, but the fact that life terminates.

The clever old conniver continued to cogitate.

That way, that sunlit, gentle path was set with mines, and had at the end of it a chasm she could not contemplate. So she hid her impulse, and did not know, because he was better at concealment than she, that he had noticed it.

The mere thought, growled Mr Prosser, hadn't even begun to speculate, he continued, settling himself back, about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.