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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplating Quotes
The value of simply pausing to think.
Contemplation slows us down long enough to notice what matters, whether a new discovery or a life decision. These quotes reflect that pause. See more on our Life page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2014, when my wife, Courtney, was expecting our daughter and we were contemplating a name, I said, 'How about Finley?' Only after Courtney said that she loved the name did I reveal that it was inspired by an aspect of Samuel Finley Brown Morse.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.
- Elite
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the non-propertied classes, relativizes it when contemplating the possibility that the class struggles result in distributive effects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020