Mulling Quotes

• Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Worry, Useless

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Space, Things I Love, Gaps

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• I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Ideas, Sticks

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mulling Over, True Life, Done

  Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan

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• Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mulling Over, Hair, Care

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.

  Heather Brewer

  Hands, Vampire, Lips

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, Penguin

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• Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mean, Mulling Over, Truck

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• Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

  Les Miles

  Memorable, Lsu, Games

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• Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Worry, Useless

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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