Quotes of: Contemplating Keyword

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Tony Blair

The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the quiet with the painful whispers of all that goes unspoken. Busy-ness is our drug of choice, numbing our minds just enough to keep us from dwelling...

Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

Dating a Cougar

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her forever."

Demon Possession

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

Envy

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.

Exploring Celtic Spirituality

A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.

The Ground Will Catch You

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

Beyond Good and Evil

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

Max Heindel

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Eduard Hanslick

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much els...

Jerry Saltz

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

Journey to the West

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?

Of Love and Other Demons

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

Life of Pi

Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The Sense of Wonder

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Poems and Essays