Short Pondering Quotes & Sayings

I have no idea where to take a girl on a date. Sandor cuts short a laugh. We sit in silence, both of us pondering. — Pittacus Lore

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. — Nikki Giovanni

I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD. — Santosh Kalwar

There is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for. — Norah Vincent

Her conversation was like a Russian newspaper, remarkable for what is left unsaid. — Guy Thorne

Take all the time you need, Miss Steele. I need another moment to marshal my wayward thoughts. — E.L. James

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything. — Robin Hobb

One Yard Short exposes those "he's not a winner" arguments for the suckerpunch they are, showing the keen edge that separates champions from also-rans. McNair earned immunity from such taunts that day, proving that he could, even though he didn't. Thoughtful fans can return to that moment when pondering the legacy of other players, who may have come up five yards short, or twenty, but could still see the end zone, still gave their teams a chance at glory: A loss is not always a failure. — Mike Tanier

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. — Ronald Reagan

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that. — Roni Horn

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally. — Fritz Sauckel

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum - "
"You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.
"That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies."
"It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding. — Terry Pratchett

People ask why my brother killed himself. "Why would such a gifted journalist, whose works have won all the prizes in the world, do such a thing?" "He had so many friends, why would he want to leave them?" "But what about all he had to live for?"
In a short space of time, I had a drawerful of articles wirtten by reporters pondering the death of one who, like them, made a living out of trying to sort out the truth, separating fact from conjecture. They were hell-bent on making sense out of this event.
When they phoned, I told them they were going to fail. I told them that the problem with suicide is that it is a senseless event. There is no why.
But of course that's wrong. There are numerous whys, though it's almost impossible, or unlikely that any single one of them is "the answer" that people want to hear. — Christopher Lukas

It wasn't work. I played myself. — Dick Van Dyke