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I do not know if others are like myself, but I am conscious that I cannot contemplate beauty long.
— W. Somerset Maugham
But what socialists seriously contemplate the equal division of existing capital resources among the people of the world?
— Friedrich Hayek
When I'm done, I contemplate lying down in the middle of the road to let a car finish me off. I'm already half-dead.
— Lindsey Leavitt
If I was in my sane mind, I'd contemplate and try to find a meaning to of all this. But this is the mad world I am a living in.
— Cameron Jace
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
— John Mortimer
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
— Etgar Keret
Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life.
— Neale Donald Walsch
When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.
— Sharon Salzberg
Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.
— Shilpa Sandesh
You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.
— Gao Xingjian
So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate. — William Shakespeare
So many hours must I contemplate. — William Shakespeare
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.
— Leigh Newman
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
— Nellie L. McClung
I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.
— Siobhan Davis
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
— Pope Francis
Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love.
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us? — Rumi
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us? — Rumi
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
— Laozi
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
— Rebecca Pidgeon
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...
— Franz Kafka
I have actually seen people contemplate their navels
— John Heilpern
( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
— Comte De Lautreamont
When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
— Anais Nin
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
— Sherry Turkle
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,
— Mike Rowe
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
— John Green
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Forgiveness is greater than condemnation, and love stronger than hate. What is there left for us to contemplate?
-Reed Abbitt Moore- — Reed Abbitt Moore
-Reed Abbitt Moore- — Reed Abbitt Moore
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
— Dan Flavin
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
— Bruce Lee
I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots;
— Adam Sisman
And then I go up to my room, climb onto a chair, and contemplate the mechanics of hanging.
— Jennifer Niven
These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.
— Mike Lee
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
— Gautama Buddha
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ...
— Abraham Lincoln
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
— James Buchan
We become what we contemplate.
— Plato
You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.
— David Wong
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
— Robert Frost
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
— Wendell Berry
When, she wonders, do people have time to contemplate anything? But she has no time to answer that.
— Tom Rachman
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
— Dante Alighieri
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
— Alan Watts
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
— Roger Ebert
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
— Dion Fortune
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
— Plato
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
— Franz Grillparzer
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
— Caterina Murino
I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.
— Sonali Deraniyagala
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
— Zig Ziglar
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
— Charles Dickens
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[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
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
— Alan Lightman
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
— Horace
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
— Ian Stevenson
One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?
— Francine Prose
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
— Don Mazankowski
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
— Brian Eno
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
— Jasper Carrott
Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
— Thomas S. Monson
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
— Carl Jung
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.
— Jane Smiley
When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.
— Lisa J. Shultz
If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
— Deepak Chopra
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.
— Andre Dubus
SPACES ... BREAKS ... TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS ... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT ...
— Stephanie Perkins
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
— Ambrose Bierce
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
— John Maynard Keynes
it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
— Marshall McLuhan
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
— Thomas Jefferson
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
— Horace
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar
— Dean Cavanagh
A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.
— David Powning
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
— Jean Plaidy
Let's not merely contemplate the Word of God in the world around us; let's do what it says (see James 1:22-25).
— David Platt
He was hungry. IN 2014, in the richest country on earth, he wanted a little extra to eat but felt uncomfortable asking. Lord help us.
— J.D. Vance
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
— Theodore Bikel
sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.
— R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
— Marshall McLuhan
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
— Alfred North Whitehead