Top 100 Ponder Quotes
#1. Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
Viswanathan Anand
#2. Life depends on time and he who least values time and what to really do with his time will get to the end of the time in his lifetime only to ponder over the times he had in his life! Remember always; your lifetime: your life has been timed!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#3. I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.
Terry Pratchett
#4. The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.
Ravi Zacharias
#5. Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.
Francisco Leon
#7. I knew I hadn't been the most innocent of victims, but I didn't deserve this. DC Smith stood and grinned at me as he thanked me and left the room, leaving me to cry and to ponder on his not very adept handling of the situation.
Stephen Richards
#8. Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.
Mark Lilla
#9. I have a lot of time to smoke a cigar and sit around and do nothing and enjoy life-and wonder and ponder. I need time to think about how to conquer things. I am faced with the challenge of what I will do next and how will I do it.
Mark Gonzales
#10. Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
Bhartrhari
#14. A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can ... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
Max Lucado
#16. At this moment, I have nothing to do or ponder except love and wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#17. If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.
Henry B. Eyring
#18. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books ... But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside,
Malala Yousafzai
#19. Should founders of our lands one day wake up for a moment from their lasting sleep to see the lands and things they founded, they shall really have so many reasons to ponder over their lasting footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Miyamoto Musashi
#21. The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.
Jo Nesbo
#23. Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
#25. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.
Donna Lynn Hope
#26. If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
Marilynne Robinson
#27. While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Quintilian
#28. The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.
Seymour Chwast
#29. But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#30. And ponder what he said about there being people with worse problems than mine. It takes me all of three seconds to conclude that's such a bullshit thing to say. Like the people in Iran are more important than me because their suffering is supposedly more acute. Bullshit.
Matthew Quick
#31. These resemble no chicken fingers I've ever seen, lass. And I saw a fair amount of chickens in my day. There was this wench in the stables with the most remarkable . . . well, never mind that. You must grow fowl considerably larger now. I shudder to ponder the size of their beaks.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. He says it casually, dropping the suggestion like a piece of litter. I ponder it there, on the ground. Maybe it's worthless, maybe not. I won't know unless I pick it up.
Gayle Forman
#34. The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.
Richard G. Scott
#35. A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
#36. All I ask is ... ponder with open minds. We've made so many mistakes, humanity, during just one lifetime. Many of them perpetrated not by evildoers, drenched in malice, but by men and women filled with fine motives! Like you.
David Brin
#38. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.
Terry Pratchett
#39. We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#40. When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#41. You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.
Harvey MacKay
#42. This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#43. We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#44. Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
Horace Walpole
#45. I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
Emily Dickinson
#46. The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
Anna Howard Shaw
#47. What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'
Ray William Johnson
#48. I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.
Joyce Hollyday
#49. Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.
S. Kelley Harrell
#50. Will you have any regrets once she's dead?
Brooklyn's question and her voice echoed in my head as I watched her walking to her house, her hips swaying tantalizingly at every step. A heavy weight fell on my shoulders because I didn't have to ponder that question to find the answer.
Stephanie Witter
#51. A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
#53. The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
Mortimer J. Adler
#54. When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.
Russell M. Nelson
#55. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Henry Miller
#56. I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.
Archie Carr
#57. He holds the most frightening and terrible of all of the Shards. Ponder on that for a time, you old reptile, and tell me if your insistence on nonintervention holds firm. Because I assure you, Rayse will not be similarly inhibited.
Brandon Sanderson
#58. The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
Jack Welch
#61. He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush.
Charles Frazier
#62. What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to ponder such possibilities denies the value of motherhood.
Debbie McGowan
#63. The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.
David Jeremiah
#64. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.
Mark Twain
#65. When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
Symeon The New Theologian
#67. You were afraid of me? Don't you meet with the Fallen in Sheol?"
"Yes, but none of them had ever stolen my heart nor left me without words to ponder its loss.
Amy A. Bartol
#68. Mind you," said Ponder, "the universe does have a rhythm. Day and night, light and dark, life and death - " "Chicken soup and croutons," said Ridcully. "Well, not evert metaphor bears close examination".
Terry Pratchett
#69. Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh
one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder.
Debasish Mridha
#71. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Ponder this the next time your world goes from calm to chaos ... . Jesus knows how you feel.
Max Lucado
#73. The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
B.W. Powe
#74. It's the only call ... To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.
Bill Cowher
#75. The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.
Lakshman Krishnamurthi
#76. Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
J.K. Rowling
#77. Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
Dan Brown
#78. In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.
Hunter S. Thompson
#79. You do not continue to sit on thorns that continue to prickle you. If the prickling continues, ponder and continue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. It's good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.
Brandon Sanderson
#81. Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#82. If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler
#83. If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando
#84. If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.
If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break.
G.S. Jennsen
#86. Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma
Drew Barrymore
#87. Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?
Alaa Al Aswany
#88. Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we as individuals might have a say in governing our country? Honor the lives sacrificed for your freedoms. Vote.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. Death ... does this to people. It slaps the living upside the head and it makes us ponder and exchange events and feelings that might stay hidden.
Kris Radish
#90. God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
George MacDonald
#91. When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#92. Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#94. I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
Enya
#95. Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.
James Adams
#96. If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
Emma Roberts
#97. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.
Tiffany Madison
#98. Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.
David Simon
#99. There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.
Victor LaValle
