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  • That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said. "How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sabrina asked. "Considerably less cool," Puck replied. -- Michael Buckley
  • You've no more for me than I have for you." Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: "How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!" "You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse! -- Georgette Heyer
  • Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing. -- John Ortberg
  • The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. -- Marty Feldman
  • The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with. -- Marty Feldman
  • I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65. -- Adam Clayton
  • Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt. -- Thomas Frank
  • Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. -- Ludwig Quidde
  • Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
  • My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations. -- Pierre Loti
  • The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. -- Rene Cassin
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  • Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably. -- Max Heindel
  • Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be. -- Michael Leunig
  • As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot. -- Sanjay Dutt
  • Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. -- Lee Child
  • We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. -- Jane Goodall
  • The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. -- John Badham
  • The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. -- Zig Ziglar
  • The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? -- Douglas Coupland
  • I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably. -- Michael Franks
  • And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. -- Hjalmar Schacht
  • Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention. -- Dustin Moskovitz
  • I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. -- Daniel Tammet
  • Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements. -- Seth Shostak
  • My own death threats have declined considerably. -- Ian Mckellen
  • It was considerably larger than a knife hilt. -- Meg Cabot
  • Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
  • I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. -- Kenneth Appel
  • Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity. -- Mark Oliver
  • When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States. -- John Mearsheimer
  • These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably. -- Diablo Cody
  • In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. -- Stanislaw Lem
  • As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat. -- Ivan Pavlov
  • People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn. -- Aaron Sorkin
  • Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. -- John Kennedy Toole
  • If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. -- Giulio Natta
  • In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters. -- Judy Woodruff
  • No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. -- Georgette Heyer
  • Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's? -- Seth Klarman
  • It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens. -- James L. Cambias
  • There is no doubt that the adsence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German army. -- Joseph Stalin
  • Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60. -- Ros Asquith
  • Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably. -- Wilfred Grenfell
  • However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source. -- Phyllis Bottome
  • The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. -- Jerry Fodor
  • I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience. -- Hector Hugh Munro
  • Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions. -- Noam Chomsky
  • It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit. -- Andy Murray
  • Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. -- Lisa Schwarzbaum
  • The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days. -- Atul Gawande
  • I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. -- M. Scott Peck
  • My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it's done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do. -- Tyler Cowen
  • It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow. -- Konrad Lorenz
  • In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably. -- Jackie Kennedy
  • Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless. -- Rob Mariano
  • Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. -- John Gierach
  • What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably. -- Lee Myung-bak
  • We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for. -- Benjamin Graham
  • ...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction. -- Sarah Caudwell
  • I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. -- Peter Garrett
  • At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors. -- Vicente Fox
  • If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience. -- Klaus Teuber
  • Hillary Clinton is for sanctuary cities. She's for catch and release. She's for open borders. She's actually considerably to the left of President Obama on the issue of immigration. -- Kellyanne Conway
  • Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. -- Katharine Graham
  • After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably. -- Zechariah Chafee
  • In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically. -- Mao Zedong
  • I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the beginning of the race. -- Winston Churchill
  • The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain. -- Benjamin Graham
  • The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches. -- Elliott Sober
  • Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and makes them, slowly, famous.... without them wishing to become celebrated. -- Richard Clayderman
  • Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. -- Dorothea Dix
  • I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have. -- Rudolf Bing
  • At such close range, even she could hit a vampire full force in the shoulder, surprising him considerably. He paused in his attack. "Well, my word! You can't threaten me, you're pregnant! -- Gail Carriger
  • Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed. -- Antoine Lavoisier
  • The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. -- John Redwood
  • The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar. -- Rod Serling
  • In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months. -- Robert Kennedy
  • It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females. -- Lewis Thomas
  • I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! -- Rita Dove
  • Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears. -- Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines. -- Alvin Plantinga
  • There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language. -- Noam Chomsky
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