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Quotes About Contemplate

The worse the mess, the more I get to wonder.
~ Sheila O'Connor
One sits down first one thinks afterwards.
~ Jean Cocteau
I did not think of language as the means to self-description. I thought of it as the door—a thousand opening doors!—past myself. I thought of it as the means to notice, to contemplate, to praise, and, thus, to come into power.
~ Mary Oliver
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like
~ Matthew Norman
Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think—or to even spend much time thinking at all.
~ Steven D. Levitt
With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.
~ Pope John Paul II
Squirrelpaw wondered
~ Erin Hunter
Think, Crowpaw!
~ Erin Hunter
Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
~ Craig Bruce
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
~ Randall Jarrell
How long will it last, this peace I have found at sea? It is all of life that I contemplate—sun, clouds, time that passes and abides.
~ Bernard Moitessier
But let me remember what I choose.
~ Gregory Maguire
What do you say?" "Nothing yet. I just kinda stare at him. Let him bloviate." He
~ Harlan Coben
Wake up and ponder the future
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
~ Sherry Turkle
Think, two things on their own and both at once.
~ Simon Armitage
There is a Sacerdotall dignitie in my native Countrey contiguate to me, where I now contemplate: which your worshipfull benignitie could sone impenetrate for mee, if it would like you to extend your sedules, and collaude me in them to the right honourable lord Chaunceller, or rather Archgrammacian of Englande.
~ Simon Winchester
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How does the soul enter the body from the aloofness of the intellectual world? The answer is, through appetite. But appetite, though sometimes ignoble, may be comparatively noble. At best, the soul has the desire of elaborating order on the model of what it has seen in the IntellectualPrinciple (nous). That is to say, soul contemplates the inward realm of essence, and wishes to produce something, as like it as possible
~ Bertrand Russell
Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
~ Sun Tzu
Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian.
~ Jude Watson
Better to be a silent fool than a talkative one.
~ Julia Quinn