Contemplator Quotes

#1. The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Richard Eberhart

#2. There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Jacques Maritain

#3. And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Joan Collins

#4. My father was a very contradictory man.

John Malkovich

#5. That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?

Kate Elliott

#6. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Donald Miller

#7. Parents teach you a lot of things, but the most important thing they teach you is this: how people will fuck you up in the future. If they're any good, they teach you to get used to it.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

Philip Pullman

#9. He said, "Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer."
"Baptism is a prayer."
"No," he said. "Baptism is a what I'd call a fact.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

Hosni Mubarak

#11. Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

Arthur Smith

#12. Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Aristotle.

#13. When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.

Peggy Sealfon

#14. There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

Hal Borland