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I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book. -- Rob Machado
I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background. -- Bill Maris
I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time. -- Karan Johar
In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. -- John Pople
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions. -- John Yoo
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. -- Craig Venter
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation. -- Billy Gibbons
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science. -- George Smoot
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. -- George Catlin
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated. -- Nobuo Uematsu
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. -- Samuel Alexander
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations. -- Aristide Briand
'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar. -- Tempestt Bledsoe
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. -- John Thorn
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. -- Paul Nurse
I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work. -- Adoniram Judson
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. -- Richard Helms
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out. -- Steve-O
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself. -- John le Carre
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day. -- Adoniram Judson
Surely I have contemplated the things of God. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective. -- Salvador Bernal
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. -- E. M. Forster
The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God. -- Angelo Sodano
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. -- Antonin Scalia
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore. -- Ajahn Sumedho
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it? -- Robert Walser
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. -- Christopher Morley
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought. -- Frederick William Robertson
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. -- Art Buchwald
Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring. -- Anne McLellan
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government. -- James Madison
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. -- Plato
When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence. -- Karen Armstrong
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible. -- Paulo Coelho
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place! -- Viktor Schauberger
The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version. -- David Carradine
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. -- Mark Twain
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind. -- Marilyn Ferguson
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor. -- Terry Pratchett
I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity. -- Kelley Armstrong
It is not true that I contemplated going to London or obtaining a visa. The purpose of such rumours is to tarnish [my reputation]. -- Osama bin Laden
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly. -- Phil Cousineau
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated. -- Patricia Hampl
We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated. -- Warren E. Burger
It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. -- John Calvin
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. -- Loren Eiseley
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men. -- James Madison
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Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. -- Howard Nemerov
Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar. -- Tempestt Bledsoe

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