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Quotes About Contemplate

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?
~ Stephen Crane
Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.
~ Stephen J. Nichols
We both know what those steps would have to be, though we do not mention our thoughts to each other. We should neither of us shrink from the task, awful though it be to contemplate. Euthanasia is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
~ Bram Stoker
The ability to manipulate the environment thoughtfully provides the capacity to shift our vantage point, to hover above the timeline and contemplate what was and imagine what will be.
~ Brian Greene
concentrate
~ Brian Tracy
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.
~ Carl Sagan
We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.
~ Carl Sagan
And yet there's one question whose answer I have thought out, and it suddenly comes to mind . . . 'Stay with me.
~ Garret Freymann-Weyr
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
~ Brian Aldiss
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
~ Brian Eno
We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It's simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we're full. As we eat, we unknowingly—mindlessly—look for signals or cues that we've had enough.
~ Brian Wansink
In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.
~ Ian Mcewan
Voleva fuggire, buttarsi da sola sul letto a faccia in giù e assaporare il dolore cocente di quel momento, e poi seguire con il pensiero il diramarsi di ogni possibile conseguenza fino al punto esatto che precedeva la devastazione. Aveva bisogno di contemplare a occhi chiusi la ricchezza di quello che aveva perso, di quello che aveva ceduto, e di prefigurarsi il nuovo stato delle cose.
~ Ian Mcewan
I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.
~ Bill Burr
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?
~ Rumi
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I don't really doubt – I just want to.
~ Steven L. Peck
Daily I live with [one] fear--a healthy fear if there is such a thing. [It is] that I will miss something God has for me in this life. And it is mind-expanding to contemplate all that He wants me to have. I don't want to be robbed of even one of God's riches by not taking time to let Him invade my life. By not listening to what He is telling me.
~ Carole Mayhall
stared at the
~ Carolyn Keene
Another time? Why another time? Will another time make a difference, Aryeh?
~ Chaim Potok
I have no message.
~ Zinedine Zidane
rose, which is to say the petal of FAITH, and pray, To Our Father Who is Benevolent and Reigns in Heaven, Your names are hallowed and sacred. Contemplate here your faith in the Lord your God and the grace of the Holy Spirit, while giving gratitude for the presence of both in your life and on earth. Embrace the second petal, which is to say the petal of SURRENDER, and pray, Your kingdom comes to us through obedience to your will. Thy will be done. Listen to the voice of your Father that you may
~ Kathleen McGowan
stared at the little girl and suddenly she
~ Katie Flynn