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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

The God of the Puritans ... was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. — Robert Byrd

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

Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos. — Terryl L. Givens

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

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

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

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. — Laozi

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees. — Wayne Dyer

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. — Rebecca Pidgeon

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. — Georges Simenon

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

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you. — Harold Klemp

( ... ) 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

Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. — Ted Chiang

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

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate. — Rosie Thomas

Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed. — Salman Rushdie

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 couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life! — John Caudwell

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

Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe? — Ruth Ahmed

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

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure — William Feather

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

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. — H.G.Wells

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

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred. — Johannes Kepler