Top 100 Quotes About Contemplating
#1. Come with me."
"Let me think on that." I tap a finger against my bottom lip as if I'm really contemplating his crappily delivered invitation. His eyes drop to watch the movement.
"Okay. I've decided. No."
- Ella Harper
Erin Watt
#2. When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Jane Austen
#3. My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
Eric Clapton
#4. Funny how a little sleep, a little makeup, and a lot of contemplating can make you feel like a different person - a stronger version of yourself.
Anna Banks
#5. That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.
David Lynch
#6. Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.
Leigh Brackett
#7. Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
Alexis Carrel
#8. When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.
Harry S. Truman
#9. Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#10. He's always looking out windows,
contemplating something.
Jay Asher
#11. I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.
Bell Hooks
#12. Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.
J.K. Rowling
#13. Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
Donna Rice
#14. What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
#15. She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her forever."
Sebastian from Demon Possession
Kiersten Fay
#16. In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends
Kobayashi Issa
#17. You can achieve enlightenment by simply spending time contemplating nature: the formation of clouds, the beauty of the forest, and the lifecycle of the beings that dwell within.
Loren Mayshark
#18. I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a judge with half-rotten fruit would qualify as contempt of the court. Quite probably.
Rachel Heffington
#19. This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.
Samuel Homola
#20. It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
Gautama Buddha
#21. Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics ... I just go in and let it happen.
Alanis Morissette
#22. The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.
Patanjali
#23. As far as Luke is concerned, two things bring Christians joy: contemplating salvation and the honor of being dishonored for Jesus' sake.
William J. Larkin Jr.
#24. Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.
Warren Buffett
#25. The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
#26. Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt
Immanuel Kant
#27. Contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us,
Homer
#28. It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.
Sarah Ruhl
#29. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
Richard Ronald Allan
#30. The happy man ... will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
Aristotle.
#31. If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is 'it will probably be okay,' then run the other way because what you're contemplating is not a good choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. Victor hadn't exactly looked forward to death before, he was probably contemplating it a bit more fondly as the morning progressed.
Grace Burrowes
#33. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Timothy Leary
#34. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
Antony Gormley
#35. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
#36. He had an ego so large that only by contemplating the mathematical definition of infinity could anything so limitless be imagined.
Robert Anton Wilson
#37. I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#38. When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
Tycho Brahe
#39. My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
#40. As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
#41. I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
Walter Kirn
#42. Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with the bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the remainder of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase 'silent as the grave'. Do I make myself clear?
Rob Kidd
#43. Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
Alexander McCall Smith
#44. The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
Clive James
#45. A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
Ann Voskamp
#46. The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.
Andrew Solomon
#47. When you were contemplating cheating on your mate, it was not easy on the conscience. And not something you wanted to do in the home you shared with her.
J.R. Ward
#48. Had found a career they loved not by contemplating what would turn them on but by bumping into it someplace out in the world.
Kate White
#49. We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Michel De Montaigne
#50. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
Meg Tilly
#51. Do you think sex will be even dirtier once we're divorced?" Patrick looks up from contemplating the chessboard. "Are you planning on sleeping with me after we're divorced?" Will's ears burn. "Would we have to stop?" Patrick
Leta Blake
#52. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
Yann Martel
#53. Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating.
Alex Rutherford
#54. The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.
Thomas Troward
#55. Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing.
Donna Grant
#56. after reading an article about Ulbrickson's nutritional regimen, and contemplating his boys' success, a horse trainer named Tom Smith would go in search of hay with a high calcium content for a racehorse named Seabiscuit.
Daniel James Brown
#57. The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory.
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
Marcelene Cox
#59. Our brains were not designed for us to sit around contemplating what we already have. They were not designed to trigger excitement for no reason. They were designed for us to keep finding new ways to promote survival
Anonymous
#60. The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
Juvenal
#61. They plodded on, contemplating the faithlessness of modern love and marriage.
Y.S. Lee
#62. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
Elie Wiesel
#63. Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#64. Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue expanse of the oceans. He felt like a bird contemplating the sky.
Margi Preus
#66. How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli)
Manjit Kumar
#67. When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
Larry The Cable Guy
#68. It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
John Calvin
#69. I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.
D.S. Mixell
#70. We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.
Sean Carroll
#71. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.
Victor Hugo
#72. The hands of the artificer," Paul said, "had wu, and allowed that wu to flow into this piece. Possibly he himself knows only that this piece satisfies. It is complete, Robert. By contemplating it, we gain more wu ourselves.
Philip K. Dick
#73. herself, she stood outside Mark's door, head bowed, contemplating
Cheryl Taylor
#74. I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
Mariella Frostrup
#75. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. I was lying on my bed, contemplating Mason's death when Amy strolled into our cabin.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Wondering what would cause more damage, a paint-brush in the eye or a putty knife shoved up someone's nostril," I answered, scowling at the ceiling.
Tiffany King
#77. Zombies were probably munching on my friends and family as we speak and I was contemplating orgasms in the apocalypse. But it couldn't be helped.
Gillian Zane
#78. My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
Edward Abbey
#79. And to you, my dear visitors, I wish to speak of this youth, my brother, for there has been no appearance in my life more precious than this one, more prophetic and moving. My heart feels tender, and at this moment I am contemplating my whole life as if I were living it all anew ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. I hope you're not contemplating retaliation against Mr. Figueroa."
She smiled again. "Don't need to. Karma will take care of him."
"As long as Karma isn't a hit man from New Delhi, we're good.
Marianne Stillings
#81. The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.
Wayne Dyer
#82. Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
Gautama Buddha
#83. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#84. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
Jude Morgan
#85. I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.
Rick Ross
#86. I'm contemplating thinking about thinking ... but ... it's overrated - just get another drink in!
Robbie Williams
#87. People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#88. In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.
Jonathan Franzen
#89. Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
James Laver
#90. IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
Dogen
#91. Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Amanda Lindhout
#92. Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Malcolm Forbes
#93. In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.
Trai Byers
#95. We shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves,
Teresa Of Avila
#96. Long-time inhabitant of steeples, accustomed to contemplating, from his perch on a rainspout, the expanse of roofs, he knew that the souls of cities are more substantial and more lasting than those of all their inhabitants put together.
Italo Calvino
#97. When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!
Mary Pope Osborne
#98. We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.
Wayne Dyer
#99. If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.
Laini Taylor
#100. I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
Natalie Maines
