Considering Quotes

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.

  Tim Robbins

  Past, Marijuana, Views

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• Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Responsibility, Church, Generations

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.120, InterVarsity Press

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• I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Catholic, Four

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Sight, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• I was considering running for political office.

  Michael Newdow

  Running, Office, Political

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Movie, Missing, Being Thankful

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• There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

  William Bligh

  Navy, Too Much, Voyages

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.2, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

  Robert Menzies

  Company, Surprising

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• I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

  Christopher Walken

  Movie, Independent, Starting Over

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• Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems

  Pete Rozelle

  Emotional, Years, Needs

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• Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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• It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

  Frank Auerbach

  Morning, Artist, Wake Up

  Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Oil, Raw Materials, Use

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• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  Ted Lindsay

  Cheer, Team, Years

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• You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

  Charles Simeon

  Faith, Prayer, Humble

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Swings, Intellectual, Privilege

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Peace, Two, People

  "Man of Vision". Interview with Sam Vaknin, samvak.tripod.com.

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• Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Bombarded By, Information

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• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Marriage, Fool, Earth

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