Contemplators Quotes & Sayings

She could feel the emotional wedge between him and his father. It must be very hard for them to work together, she thought. Maybe she just didn't understand the ways of the super wealthy. — Mike Wells

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

It's true that he would come to himself at once, and yet, if he were asked what he had been thinking about while standing there, he would most likely not remember, but would most likely keep hidden away in himself the impression he had been under while contemplating. These impressions are dear to him, and he is most likely storing them up imperceptibly and even without realizing it - why and what for, of course, he does not know either; perhaps suddenly, having stored up his impressions over many years, he will drop everything and wander off to Jerusalem to save his soul, or perhaps he will suddenly burn down his native village, or perhaps he will do both. There are plenty of contemplators among the people. Most likely Smerdyakov, too, was such a contemplator, and most likely he, too, was greedily storing up his impressions, almost without knowing why himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a 2011 survey by Food Safety News showed that 75 percent of honey on store shelves had no pollen in it. All honey has at least a few grains of pollen that remain in it after normal straining, and that pollen is the only definitive way to determine country and even region of origin. A complete lack of pollen indicates one of two things: The jar has no honey in it at all, or the honey has been ultrafiltered by heating and forcing the honey through tiny filters to remove all of the pollen. — Mark L. Winston

My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success. — Nikola Tesla

I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action. — Marianne Williamson

But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume. — Stephanie Perkins

Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated. — Victor Hugo

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short
not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. — Lewis Carroll

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box
the part one strikes on, I mean. — Virginia Woolf

It's hard to forget a woman who manages to seduce you while spouting odd literary trivia and anatomically specific threats. — Molly Harper

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about. — Natalia Vodianova

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. — Hazel Rochman