Consider Quotes

• Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Acting
  • Avoid
  • Foolishness

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Enemy
  • Glory
  • Fantasy

• The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Consider
  • Commandment
  • Obeyed

• Well, you know, my name is Ced and I kinda consider myself an entertainer. Hey that ain't bad yeah, Cedric the Entertainer.

  

  Cedric the Entertainer
  • Myself
  • Entertainer
  • Cedric the Entertainer

• To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Imagine

• I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Country
  • Secret
  • Clear

• I therefore consider it a great privilege to be part of a band who, as a fan, I have watched grown from young hopefuls to a bona fide rock institution.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Hopefuls

• The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Failure

• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

  

  Sophocles
  • Consider
  • Acts
  • Man's Age

• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Interested
  • Mess
  • Escapist

• In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rules
  • Consider
  • Human Nature

• It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Stuff
  • Consider
  • Hippies

• Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

  

  Epictetus
  • Picture
  • Consider
  • Commit

• Please — consider me a dream.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Dream
  • Consider
  • Please

• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Important
  • Weather
  • Tedious

• Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Moving
  • Planets
  • Revolutions

• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Women
  • Consider
  • Monsters

• I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Consider
  • Physics
  • Demonstrate

• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believe
  • Read
  • Consider

• Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Winner
  • Helped
  • Compete

• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Treat
  • Consider
  • Probabilities

• Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

  

  Plutarch
  • True
  • Despise
  • Examine

• 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

  

  Billy Joel
  • Bad
  • Opinion
  • Singer

• I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Entrepreneur
  • Consider
  • Inventor

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