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Quotes About Contemplate

I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.
~ Stan Sakai
Analyze before you finalize in short; connect your mouth to the brain before you talk.
~ Unknown
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
~ Unknown
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
~ Voltaire
Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view.
~ Philip Yancey
Hold the question in your mind, but lightly, like it was something alive.
~ Unknown
Have you ever had to contemplate letting loved ones die at the hand of someone who hates them?
~ Rachel Kadish
head, casting a look toward
~ Diana Gabaldon
would I come one day to a point when nothing in me stirred to the sound of a crying baby, to the scent of a man aroused, to the brush of my own long hair against the skin of my naked back? And if I did come to such a point—would I mourn the loss, I wondered, or find myself peaceful, left to contemplate existence without the intrusion of such animal sensations?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Dare to think!
~ Immanuel Kant
The children were kept by the priests for some weeks before their deaths (those kindergartens of doomed infants are difficult to contemplate).
~ Unknown
Food for thought
~ Ira Glass
A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.
~ Italo Calvino
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
~ J. K. Rowling
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head
~ Damon Knight
that everybody has to stop talking.
~ Dan Gutman
I get it. Artists are introverts. If you were out there socializing all the time, you wouldn't have time to contemplate and create. I have artists who are social butterflies. I'm not making a lot of money off them." She paused.
~ Unknown
Think extensively, not intensively.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Sit. Feast on your life.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
It's better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
~ John C. Maxwell
And this is either a completely disastrous question or the most sensible one I've ever asked in all my life.
~ Donna Tartt
It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world.
~ John Fowles
Kai yra kur paganyti akis, atsiranda pla?ios perspektyvos ir sielai, <...>.
~ John Irving
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
~ Miguel de Unamuno