Considered Quotes

#1. Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Comte De Lautreamont

#3. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.

Josh Radnor

#4. He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine.

Colleen Houck

#5. I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

Mark Leyner

#6. Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?

Jean Sasson

#7. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.

Eoin Colfer

#9. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

Bill Hicks

#10. There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

Hugh Shelton

#11. I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

Kenneth Tynan

#13. Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins ... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

Paul Weyrich

#14. The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.

Steven Magee

#15. Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

Anna Quindlen

#16. Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?

Richard Russo

#17. I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Charles Dickens

#18. I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Kenneth Anger

#19. Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

David Neeleman

#20. Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Carol Bellamy

#21. All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

Carl Jung

#22. I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Robert Duvall

#23. Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#24. We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

Boris Yeltsin

#25. The girl was eighty percent kitten and twenty percent lioness, and he considered it his mission to make her roar.

Kitty French

#26. Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb

#27. He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

John Ruskin

#28. Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. I once considered learning to love iced coffee, but then I remembered I'd have to kill myself, so I gave up the idea.

Richard Kadrey

#30. They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

Afrika Bambaataa

#31. Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

Isabel Allende

#32. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Anthony Holden

#33. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Eliot Ness

#34. The probability that the Earth was created with such a perfect combination to sustain life seems almost impossible. So, in the grand scheme of the Universe, you might be one insignificant pin-prick, but with all things considered, you're also nothing short of a miracle

Becki Tedford

#35. Have you ever considered that for some people in your life, you might be the only Christian they know?

Jim George

#36. Would ectoplasm be considered an amenity? As I have said, I personally define an amenity as a specific and unexpected add-on to the hotel experience.

Rick Moody

#37. I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Christopher Nolan

#38. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Edward Weston

#39. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

#40. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.

Elisabeth Badinter

#41. If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

Michel De Montaigne

#42. If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

James L. Buckley

#43. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.

Laini Taylor

#44. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

#45. As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

Virginia Woolf

#46. Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

John Constable

#47. If there was no such thing as a mirror in this world, then seeing our face 'exactly' would be considered a huge wonder.

Dada Bhagwan

#48. It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

Lyall Watson

#49. If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Judith Martin

#50. I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

Warren Buffett

#51. These days you are considered a weirdo if you live without a phone. Yet nobody cares if you live without a purpose. Anything wrong with that picture?

Ray N. Kuili

#52. If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more reasonable, but because it suited his manner of life better.

Leo Tolstoy

#53. Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged, if we are ill or unblessed with beauty?

Olivia Laing

#54. I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Peter Porter

#55. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

#56. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Bertrand Russell

#57. In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#58. Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

Peter Medawar

#59. It seems quite bizarre how much I loved one big bundle of all of my demons, but that may have been his core appeal. If he could embrace me, there was a chance I could become tolerable, even passable in those worlds that considered me a plague.

Maggie Young

#60. Every poem can be considered in two ways
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C.S. Lewis

#61. When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.

John Marshall

#62. Fairy tales and myths are born inside imagination's storehouse; just because something is considered to be 'a story' doesn't mean it isn't true.

William Paul Young

#63. Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.

Gerard De Marigny

#64. We waste those eggs like crazy, of course, flushing them out every month in days of bleeding, but then most sperm are wholly useless as well, a thought to be considered elsewhere at greater length.

Siri Hustvedt

#65. I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond

Carolyn Jessop

#66. I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Kurt Cobain

#67. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Samuel Johnson

#68. All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

W.C. Fields

#69. The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

Greg Lukianoff

#70. It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing."
Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore?
"Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise.

James Patterson

#71. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Edward Sapir

#72. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Jackie Collins

#73. Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

Giorgio Vasari

#74. We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.

Ricardo Guadalupe

#75. She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her,

Leo Tolstoy

#76. I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Andy Richter

#77. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well.

John Medina

#78. Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.

Burl Barer

#79. Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.

Mohamed Elmasry

#80. He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his intellectual equals. And this, of course, irritated people, made people very angry, and made him enemies." Wendell

Kai Bird

#81. Simon Gathercole argues that both Paul and the Gospel writers considered the good news to have three basic elements: the identity of Jesus as Son of God and Messiah, the death of Jesus for sin and justification, and the establishment of the reign of God and the new creation.12

Timothy Keller

#82. Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

Jennette McCurdy

#83. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#84. I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Tom Green

#85. Herbs and Seasonings Considered Safe For Dogs: Alfalfa Aloe Vera Anise Burdock Basil Calendula Catnip Caraway Seed Chamomile Cinnamon Cilantro Coriander

Elizabeth A. Patterson

#86. Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

William Scranton

#87. Detective, have you ever considered the fact that violence is the recourse of the uncivilised man?" Skulduggery looked back. "I'm sophisticated, charming, suave and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilised.

Derek Landy

#88. The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

Terry Pratchett

#89. He shrugs. "Not to most people."
This makes me smile. I like that he doesn't even know me, but for whatever reason, I'm not considered most people to him.

Colleen Hoover

#90. If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

Steffi Graf

#91. He fought because it was considered the 'thing to do,' because he liked the people he had to live with, and because those people wouldn't have a good opinion of him if he didn't fight. People never needed much of a philosophic motive to make them do the socially approved things.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#92. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.

Mark Crutchfield

#93. Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Meryl Sawyer

#94. Hopefully people will take me more seriously as an actress. That's what I really want to do, it's my passion and it's what I want to be considered to do. I just want to continue to do film, it's what I love.

Miley Cyrus

#95. He was, however, obliged to leave the university, because Nathaniel's story had created a sensation, and it was universally considered a quite unpardonable trick to smuggle a wooden doll into respectful tea parties in place of a living person.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#96. Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

Francoise Sagan

#97. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they're not. They're habits.

Charles Duhigg

#98. We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Jamie Dimon

#99. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

Tom Robbins

#100. The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

Terry Goodkind