Quotes About Contemplate

Galicia. I contemplate the beautiful name as it unfolds, disclosing delicate, prancing, caparisoned horses and the lovely princesses riding them whose undulating red hair reaches to the carpet of flowers beneath the hooves. "You could always tell the Jews from Galicia by their red hair," my aunt says dreamily.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

The sky had no answer for her.

Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography– Volcanoes nearer here A lava step at any time Am I inclined to climb– A Crater I may contemplate Vesuvius at Home.

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

Ford goes: "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

the right kind of a clock. One that did not hurry the hours away but ticked them off deliberately.

First ponder, then dare.  - Helmuth von Moltke

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone

Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted

Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.

Here we have another instance of an Old Testament law finding its truest fulfilment in the crucified body of Jesus Christ. As they contemplate this body which was given for them, and as they share its life, the disciples receive strength for the chastity which Jesus requires.

I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

It is first of all necessary to let the Blessed Virgin Mary take one by the hand to contemplate the Face of Christ: a joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious face.1

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.