Contemplative Thought Quotes

#1. Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

Eric Frank Russell

#2. At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

James Douglas

#3. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

Augustine Birrell

#5. Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

William Kingdon Clifford

#6. Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first.

Nora Roberts

#7. Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?

Ravi Zacharias

#8. There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.

William Poundstone

#9. I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

Anne Heche

#11. How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.

John G. Neihardt

#12. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Born to love, Born to lead.
Born to shine, Born to succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. 'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

Kellan Lutz

#15. The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#16. Well, I'm not a crook.

Richard M. Nixon

#17. No. That blood-sucking, howling wolf-man killed her.

Marissa Meyer

#18. Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

Fran Drescher

#19. A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

Graham Nash

#21. A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. NThat is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

Sakyong Mipham

#22. I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

P.T. Barnum

#23. In the East, especially in contemplative traditions like those of Buddhism, being distracted by thought is understood to be the very wellspring of human suffering.

Sam Harris

#24. It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Mother Angelica