Consider Quotes

#1. Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. - St. Ignatius Loyola

James Martin

#2. People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Timothy Leary

#3. fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even

Edwin Harkness Spina

#4. We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

David Ben-Gurion

#5. Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?

Bill Gothard

#6. I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Vikram Seth

#8. I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

Ed Seykota

#9. Not in depraved things,
but in those well oriented according to nature,
are we to consider what is natural.

Aristotle.

#10. If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#11. He knew that again now. Hennessey's death had opened to Croft vistas of such omnipotence that he was afraid to consider it directly. All day the fact hovered about his head, tantalizing him with odd dreams and portents of power.

Norman Mailer

#12. I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Linda Blair

#14. When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

Tawni O'Dell

#15. We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

Norm MacDonald

#16. Some consider haters, people that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. I just don't consider them.

Jon Luvelli

#17. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.

J.R. Rim

#18. I wanted to ask them why they would consider one with games as his hobby to be an immature child, when they would approve of those that watched movies and read books as a hobby.

Lim Yo Hwan

#19. In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

Jay L. Garfield

#20. Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.

Thomas Brooks

#21. To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

#22. Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

Blaise Pascal

#23. They say that men should look at the mother of the girl they intend to marry," Yvette said. "Girls who did what I did should consider the wife a man has discarded or worn out, and know thye are not going to do much better.

V.S. Naipaul

#24. If you ever leave me again,' she said, her eyes stinging, 'I swear to all the gods-'
Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.
'Consider me warned,' Percy said. 'I missed you, too.

Rick Riordan

#25. If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?

Isaac Asimov

#26. Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#27. I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Janet Jackson

#28. I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#29. Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.

John Jay

#30. I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.

Kenneth Langone

#31. There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Gene Luen Yang

#32. I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

Erno Rubik

#33. Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

John Knowles

#34. Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

Alexandra Potter

#35. Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

Adam Davidson

#36. I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

Per Petterson

#37. Or you could simply throw down a few inches of compost and fake it. That's what we do, isn't it? Do the best with what we have? It's not lying, dear. Don't look at it that way. It's hopeful pretending. Consider it your patriotic duty.

Na

#38. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens

#39. I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

Nicholas Sparks

#40. The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Naguib Mahfouz

#41. I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Fernando Botero

#42. I don't think, Trotwood,' returned Agnes, raising her soft eyes to mine, 'I would consider that. Perhaps it would be better only to consider whether it is right to do this; and, if it is, to do it.' I had no longer any doubt on the subject. With a

Charles Dickens

#43. I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.

Orhan Pamuk

#44. Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

Bernie Brillstein

#45. In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.

Jason Mewes

#46. I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

Peter Thiel

#47. I don't consider myself a good actor.

Hrithik Roshan

#48. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

John Climacus

#49. Consider suffering's simultaneous self-absorption and incitement to empathy. The former refigures the the self by reducing you to symptoms, conditions, enduring. The latter refigures the self by expanding it.

Zach Savich

#50. For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Marcus Samuelsson

#51. Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Sonia Sotomayor

#52. If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Stephen King

#53. I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

John Adams

#54. My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

Peter Cushing

#55. Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Marcus Aurelius

#56. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius

#57. Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#58. A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

Hani

#59. It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Douglas Horton

#60. ...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent, a ditch swarming with worms, a suffocating trap....

Peter Cellensis

#61. Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

Ira Glass

#62. Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

#63. American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#64. The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

Duane Michals

#65. I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

David Guterson

#66. What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Elliot Cowan

#67. Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

Max Lucado

#68. It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

Don Ellis

#69. I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Billy Joel

#70. Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding to their influence in society by conferring on them the right to vote for members of the legislature.

James Francis

#71. What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.

Amanda Schull

#73. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

Claire Messud

#74. I sneak a look over and consider a blow job, but even I know giving head in the middle of a demolition derby is risky,

John Waters

#75. My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

Euzhan Palcy

#76. You're a liar!"
He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#77. Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.

Theodore Ts'o

#78. I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

Viola Davis

#79. What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.

David Ebershoff

#80. I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

Marilyn Manson

#81. It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.

Dalai Lama XIV

#82. You know what each house should have? A Duty Free space. Like at the airports. Then I might consider moving in with a woman.

Carol Vorvain

#83. There is nothing at all wrong with our laws and institutions and our constitution, which are all democratic and enlightened. What is wrong is that they are enforced by people who do not consider themselves bound by them.

Louis De Bernieres

#84. I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

Adam Lamberg

#85. I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Taiye Selasi

#86. I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

Oksana Baiul

#87. I consider myself straight, but if I met a guy tomorrow and fell in love with him, would I be brave enough to accept that without having to change the way I look at myself?

Harry Lloyd

#88. I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals ... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

#89. And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.

Rebecca Goldstein

#90. (On disco) I don't consider that a genre as much as a level of hell.

J.M. Hushour

#91. As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

Ramakrishna

#92. Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities!

Og Mandino

#93. I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

Lajos Kossuth

#94. Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Herman Melville

#95. To look and solve any problem, your approach should consider truth incidents, your thoughts should have logical process and most importantly the
solution should be fair for all.

Sameh Elsayed

#96. The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

Andre Kertesz

#97. It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

William Penn

#98. We must consider how very little history there is
I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.

Samuel Johnson

#99. To find out if you really are friends with someone, consider what you can sacrifice to help him.

Joko Ono

#100. Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach