Quotes About Premeditation

#1. [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Beryl Markham

#2. If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

Franz Kafka

#3. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Bartram

#4. Online life is about premeditation.

Sherry Turkle

#5. Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

#6. The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Edgar Degas

#7. It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Seneca The Younger

#8. For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

Robert Motherwell

#9. Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#10. Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

William S. Burroughs

#11. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Henry Rollins

#13. When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

Larry Harvey

#14. The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

Woody Allen

#15. All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Grace Slick

#16. The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Elvis Costello

#17. Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.

Angelica Hopes

#18. You're breaking out of character, again.

Dave Eggers

#19. If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.

Beau Walker

#20. Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

Oliver Burkeman