Best 159 quotes in «consideration quotes» category

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with rules that have been in place for decades. A chancellor must be accessible at all times and be in a position to execute their duties as best they can. I must have the ability to immediately return to Berlin if necessary. There are also security considerations.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old, historical bonds is a reasonable, well-founded approach.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

The land is like poetry:   it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.