Ponders Quotes

#1. Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.

Roman Payne

#2. Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.

Sigmund Jahn

#3. For x a man's ways are y before the eyes of the LORD, and he z ponders [6] all his paths.

Anonymous

#4. The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Socrates

#5. LIFE and YOU : What YOU exactly want from LIFE, it'll never give. LIFE gives for sure, but in pieces. It's YOU who have to assemble, all that LIFE ponders, according to your needs. It's YOU who have to realise how you can get what YOU exactly want.

Vikrmn

#6. She'll never be all the way tame, just the way she's made ... sorta like you, I imagine." - Cowboy McKennon Kelly ponders Cowgirl in Training Devon Brooke

Carly Kade

#7. A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts.

James Berardinelli

#8. The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

John Climacus

#9. Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

Janusz Korczak

#10. Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

Josemaria Escriva

#11. Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

Pablo Neruda

#12. Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)

Swami Satchidananda

#13. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

William Arthur Ward

#14. If one Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs Attraction; from attraction grows desire, Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds Recklessness; then the memory - all betrayed - Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, Till purpose, mind, and man are all undone.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson

#16. He kept walking, stopping and then setting off again more quickly like a man in search of memories which he sorts out, challenges and compares, ponders on, thinks he has discovered, and then the thread breaking the search begins once more . . .

Alain-Fournier

#17. one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories - hypotheses, to explain the world.

Sherman Alexie

#18. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.

Marjorie Holmes

#19. A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Walter Pater

#20. Still, as one ponders that progress from open commensality with Jesus to episcopal banquet with Constantine, is it unfair to regret a progress that happened so fast and moved so swiftly, that was accepted so readily and criticized so lightly? Is

John Dominic Crossan

#21. Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Will.i.am

#22. Live life to the fullest, with a smile on your lips and a dream in your heart and remember what peace there is in silence.

Olivia Brown

#23. Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Stephen Cope

#24. That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

D. A. Carson

#25. The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.
Lavinia: Then why kill me?

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

Phil Ochs

#27. I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

Maria Semple

#28. Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. Nirvana is entire body experience of complete knowingness that our lives are enriched with abundance in the present moment and that it will continue to be going forward.

Matthew Donnelly

#30. Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

#31. Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#32. We've never seen weather like the weather there is today. We've never seen violence like the violence we see today. We've never seen greed or evil like the greed and evil we see today. We've never seen tomatoes either, like the ones being created today. There is much from which to recoil.

Alice Walker

#33. The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.

Poorna Jagannathan

#34. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Ravi Zacharias

#35. If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

Emmitt Smith