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Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. -- Le Corbusier
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills. -- Pele
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -- Thomas Sowell
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. -- Jane Austen
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure. -- Paul Gillmor
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. -- Vladimir Putin
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. -- George R. R. Martin
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. -- Jared Diamond
The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm. -- John Bytheway
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. -- Christopher Hitchens
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. -- Thomas Huxley
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. -- Martin Chemnitz
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. -- Maimonides
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. -- Stephen LaBerge
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. -- Lester B. Pearson
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. -- Piers Anthony
There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. -- John Sexton
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. -- Howard Baker
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. -- Alfred Kastler
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. -- Desmond Tutu
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. -- Edward R. Murrow
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. -- Joshua Chamberlain
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. -- Ernie Pyle
Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment. -- Shakti Gawain
For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder? -- Thomas R. Insel
I find all this money a considerable burden. -- J. Paul Getty
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part. -- Samuel Johnson
I piss on you all from a considerable height. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets. -- Greg Nickels
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. -- Gore Vidal
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. -- Joseph Butler
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. -- Poul Anderson
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve. -- William S. Burroughs
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. -- David Hume
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. -- Robert A. Dahl
The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. -- Harold Lloyd
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. -- Jane Austen
I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles. -- Cameron Mackintosh
Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems. -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. -- Bill Bennett
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. -- Tim Yeo
But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. -- Terri Cheney
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. -- Fred Saberhagen
I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns. -- Gail Carriger
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. -- Samuel Johnson
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. -- Bertrand Russell
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. -- Epictetus
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. -- William Godwin
One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people. -- Jarod Kintz
I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts. -- John Travolta
We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time. -- Ryan Shawcross
It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. -- Nellie L. McClung
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care. -- A. P. Herbert
She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all. -- Bob Hope
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. -- Thomas Carlyle
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. -- Roy Baumeister
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. -- Henry James
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. -- Mark Twain
It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children. -- Edward Zigler
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd. -- Benjamin Graham
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. -- Li Yizhong
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. -- Buffalo Bill
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. -- Oliver Cromwell
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. -- Mark Twain
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children -- Amartya Sen
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. -- Vasily Smyslov
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. -- Robert Frost
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. -- Edmund Burke
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice. -- W. Eugene Smith
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. -- James Russell Lowell
When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts. -- J. Budziszewski
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess. -- Heinrich Himmler
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. -- J. G. Holland
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. -- William Shenstone
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. -- Barry Commoner
We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. -- Clarence Darrow
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. -- Renata Adler
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. -- Karl Abraham
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. -- William Gibson
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. -- Marilyn vos Savant
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it. -- P. D. James
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. -- Severo Ochoa
I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead. -- Charlie Munger
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. -- Paul Gillmor
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. -- Seth Lloyd
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. -- James Boswell
That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. -- William Herschel
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. -- G. Stanley Hall
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul. -- Bobby Jones
The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States. -- Herbert Hoover
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. -- Norman Douglas
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public. -- Carolina Herrera
I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday. -- Romany Malco
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal. -- Alfred Bertram Guthrie
There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity. -- Anthony S. Fauci
The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks. -- Ali Larijani
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation. -- Gordon W. Allport
At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements. -- Max McKeown
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas. -- John Gerzema
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note) -- Wendy O. Williams
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. -- Harry Oppenheimer
Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent. -- Jim DeRogatis
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. -- Carl Jung
It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages. -- Robert Winston
Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution. -- Ken Ham
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. -- Martin L. Gross
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that. -- Lisa Murkowski
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career. -- Helen Suzman
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force. -- Bill Keller

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