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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!
We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.
It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on.
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.
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.
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
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.
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
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.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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.
I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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.
I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.
Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.