Top 100 To Ponder Quotes

#1. It will be a nuisance if he even suspects I spare the merest moment to ponder the Intruder, and he would willfully misinterpret it. I think of her only because I am concerned with their security. The thought was so lame and uncertain in his own mind, it made him growl.

K.M. Shea

#2. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?

Rick Warren

#3. I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

Eva Gabor

#4. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.

Ann M. Dibb

#7. Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.

Catherine Ponder

#8. do not just take a risk ; take the risk. When you are taking the risk, ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

J. C. Watts

#10. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Helen Keller

#11. The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.

William Styron

#12. You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

Barack Obama

#13. I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

Frank Luntz

#17. Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

Antoni Tapies

#18. But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

#19. Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.

Catherine Ponder

#20. It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Charles Kettering

#21. It's love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#22. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Nellie Bly

#23. Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.

Catherine Ponder

#24. Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#25. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.

Dan Pearce

#26. We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

Aaron Belz

#27. Point to Ponder: If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God.

Rick Warren

#28. But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.

"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that?

Lilia Ford

#29. One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.

Andrea Seigel

#30. They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.
'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.

Terry Pratchett

#31. I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#32. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. Denna rolled herself into my blanket and curled up with her back to the fire. "I will allow you to ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.

Patrick Rothfuss

#34. If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Catherine Ponder

#35. I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

Julie Gayet

#36. My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.

Marilynne Robinson

#37. quitting, gives you even more time to ponder. But perhaps I wanted time to stop. Maybe I was meant to lie here on my back in the desert to question why I was running through an oven. Why was I subjecting myself to this torture? I started running for reasons I had

Scott Jurek

#38. Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Catherine Ponder

#39. Life is not something you ponder to explain; life is something you deeply love and live.

Debasish Mridha

#40. Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Lucretius

#41. Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Glenn Beck

#42. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.

Salil Jha

#43. Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

Christopher Moore

#44. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

Lori Lansens

#45. Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

Catherine Ponder

#46. As I ponder my pilgrim's progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn't make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn't the one driving.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#47. God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.

Harley King

#48. You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

Henry B. Eyring

#49. When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder

#50. Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#51. I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#52. How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

George Bernard Shaw

#53. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

Francine Rivers

#54. Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#55. To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

Robert Fulghum

#56. I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.

Kinoko Nasu

#57. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

#58. She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injustice and suffering and heartlessness - there was enough of all that to fill the great Kalahari twice over, but what good did it do to ponder that and that alone? None, she thought.

Alexander McCall Smith

#59. If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

Catherine Ponder

#60. Let us march past the flag of the past, saluting our achievements', pondering over our mistakes and thinking of the lessons for the way forward as we march forward to a great tomorrow

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Johannes Brahms

#62. [Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions.

Pier Luigi Luisi

#63. I think the general population of people just don't think. It's actually proven that people just use the part of the brain they have to, to get through the day. They don't sit there and ponder over the big picture stuff.

Mitch Lucker

#64. When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

Joseph Campbell

#65. We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#66. To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

Michael Rapaport

#67. Sometimes, take a moment and ponder; yes, take a moment and stir your life just as you stir that delicious stew! Taste it to know how delicious or the otherwise it is! And if there be a need for a change, be swift and tactical.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#68. It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that time. So I decided not to search for a true self. I decided to choose who I wanted to be.

Max Barry

#69. We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

Martin Luther

#70. By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief ...

John Owen

#71. This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.

Jose Saramago

#72. But neither Emilienne nor Connor ever once stopped to ponder the miracles love might bring into their lives. Connor because he didn't know such things existed, and Emilienne because she did.

Leslye Walton

#73. While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.

Joel Makower

#74. You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama of dignified self-sacrifice to remember and ponder through all time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#75. One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Charlotte Bronte

#76. Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#77. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question. There is no such person. He

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#78. You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#79. Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Cormac McCarthy

#80. All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.

Catherine Ponder

#81. Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

C. Neil Strait

#82. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Catherine Ponder

#83. My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Roger Penrose

#84. Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?

L. Tom Perry

#85. Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

Cynthia Ozick

#86. Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.

Gary Zukav

#87. I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think.
To ponder.
To pray.
To hide.
I sat in a box and cried.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#88. There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

#89. One of the biggest religions on Roundworld was founded by a carpenter's son!' Ponder snarled. 'For years, the most powerful person on the planet was an actor! There's got to be room for Darwin!

Terry Pratchett

#90. Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#91. It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#92. Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth.

Tad Williams

#93. If we stop to ponder the paths of our feet, would we:

Allow our children to participate in sports or activities that will ultimately consume our family time, dictate our schedules, and cause us to miss church on a regular basis?

Lori Hatcher

#94. Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

Catherine Ponder

#95. Rima: "Hey Shiki, won't you be my husband?"

Shiki: "sure."

Rima: "How rash..."

Shiki: "Ehh? Why...? It means that you will be my friend and companion forever. What is there to ponder?

Matsuri Hino

#96. We are verbivores, a species that lives on words, and the meaning and use of language are bound to be among the major things we ponder, share, and dispute.

Steven Pinker

#97. I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Amy Lane

#98. Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#99. We should listen, study, think, reflect, and ponder the Scriptures until there is an answering response in our hearts and minds. It may be one of shame or of joy or of confusion or of appeal - but that response to God's speech is then truly prayer and should be given to God.

Timothy J. Keller

#100. POINT TO PONDER: I'm as close to God as I choose to be.

Rick Warren

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