“So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.”
Dan Savage
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
Chamfort
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.”
John Dos Passos
“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.”
Fran Lebowitz
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.”
Rachel Carson
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
