Ponderings Quotes

#1. You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else's. Respect it. Pay attention to it. Let it inspire curious ponderings and original thinking.

David Sturt

#2. In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them ... it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#3. So many vague, as yet unanswered ponderings in my mind about social interactions became clear and moved into that happy, "situation now understood" part of the mind.

Peter Rogers

#4. I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.

Jeff Foxworthy

#5. We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?

Thomas Pogge

#6. Moreover, you couldn't get animal sex and tight leather and sex toys along with something warm and comforting and meaningful.

Lacey Alexander

#7. If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Christine Feehan

#8. The ironies of her ignorance were sometimes too hard to bear.

Rebecca Harrington

#9. My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul

Leylah Attar

#10. I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?

Catherynne M Valente

#11. I have something I need to get off my chest."
"What's that?"
"This." He closed his mouth over hers.

Kelly Moran

#12. Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Dreaming is free... why didn't I take all I could get?

James Andrew Wilson

#14. 9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.

Eugene Kennedy

#15. Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

#16. Don't worry about anything. Pray about everything ... Put your hands together and point your soul toward the light of God.

Andrew Klavan

#17. It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.

Herman Melville

#18. Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Lois Lowry