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Self-respect knows no considerations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. -- Bryant H. McGill
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. -- Kenzo Tange
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. -- Joni Mitchell
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. -- James Dean
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. -- Horatio Nelson
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. -- Carroll Quigley
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency. -- Shashi Tharoor
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms. -- Marianne Williamson
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. -- Benjamin F. Wade
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
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. -- Talcott Parsons
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. -- Hans Hofmann
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. -- Benito Mussolini
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. -- Karl Ferdinand Braun
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself. -- Jonathan Kozol
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it. -- Henry Laurens
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. -- Oscar Wilde
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable. -- Steven Pinker
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. -- Princess Margaret
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. -- Pierre de Coubertin
In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one. -- Raymond Loewy
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. -- John Naisbitt
Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that? -- Shari Arison
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons. -- Seth Shostak
I work without commercial considerations. -- Paul Russo
Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations. -- Chris Jogis
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations. -- Paul Bowles
I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams. -- Roy Chapman Andrews
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane. -- Shimon Peres
Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return. -- Ben Bernanke
All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified! -- Anne Sexton
The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. -- Edward Snowden
The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? -- Anna Freud
The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel. -- Andre Simon
The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality. -- Spencer W. Kimball
At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations. -- David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. -- Christian Lous Lange
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. -- Anish Kapoor
The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations. -- George Washington
The Master said, â??If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. -- Confucius
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. -- Mary McCarthy
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player. -- John Wooden
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. -- David Suzuki
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form. -- Susan Sontag
If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. -- Neal Stephenson
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them. -- Paolo Veronese
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. -- C. S. Lewis
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions -- Carroll Quigley
Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. -- Neal Stephenson
There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East. -- Jeffrey Goldberg
The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations. -- Anthony Albanese
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. -- Barbara Olson
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security. -- Alexander Hamilton
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. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations. -- Louis A. Johnson
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. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets? -- David Suzuki
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment. -- Amartya Sen
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. -- M.A.Kelty
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works. -- Albert Einstein
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief. -- George Eliot
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them. -- Tobin Bell
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created. -- John Rhys-Davies
You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations. -- Dick Cheney
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants. -- James Madison
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. -- John Gierach
A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. -- Tobias Smollett
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America. -- Lajos Kossuth
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations. -- Prince Charles
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters. -- George Washington
BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into. -- Morley Safer
I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them. -- Al Gore
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. -- Troy Perry
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process. -- George Soros
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. -- Henry Fielding
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct. -- Emma Goldman
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? -- Alexander Hamilton
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus. -- Richard M. Weaver
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors. -- Guglielmo Marconi
Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology. -- Lucio Russo
Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations. -- Mario Monti
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. -- George Orwell
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on... -- Gianfranco Frattini
At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them. -- Andrew Oliver
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic. -- Benjamin Cardozo
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations. -- Ernst Mach
A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question. -- Susan Piver

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