C Quotes
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“Consider a device she has used so skilfully in the past: identify
the weakness of a man, exploit it. True, the device works and
for a long time. But in the end, and the end has come-I don't
mean chronologically, of course, but in terms of effectivenessthe ability to manipulate the weaknesses of others does not suffice.
You must reckon with your own weaknesses and with how they
incapacitate you in dealing with the cruel march of time, of
events”
Source: Mrs. Gandhis second reign
“Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
“Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.”
Source: Transformations
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
“Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.”
Source: Thirukkural
“Consider A Move
The steady time of being unknown,
in solitude, without friends,
is not a steadiness that sustains.
I hear your voice waver on the phone:
Haven't talked to anyone for days.
I drive around. I sit in parking lots.
The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits.
What should I say? There are ways
to meet people you will want to love?
I know of none. You come out stronger
having gone through this? I no longer
believe that, if I once did. Consider a move,
a change, a job, a new place to live,
someplace you'd like to be. That's not it,
you say. Now time turns back. We almost touch.
Then what is? I ask. What is?”
Source: New and selected poems
“Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
“Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.”
“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture book... That circle, so private and intimate, is a place apart form the demands and stresses of daily life, a sanctuary in and from which the child can explore the many worlds offered in picture books. Despite all of our society's technological advances, it still just takes one child, one book, and one reader, to create this unique space, to work this everyday magic.”
“Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.”
“Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.”
“Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Consider again the life of Jesus. He, according to all reliable testimony, did not experience sexual relations. Yet despite this, faith attests him as the one complete human being....To be faithful to the revelation in Jesus, we must say that the experience of sexual union is not needed for a full and complete human life.”
Source: Friendship: The Heart of Being Human
“Consider all recruiters to be lazy and short of time.”
Source: WHAT WON’T GET YOU YOUR DREAM JOB : STORY OF A JOB HUNT
“Consider all tabulation systems infected by bad actors until a third party, not affiliated with the manufacturer or election officials, proves they are secure.”
“Consider all the demands that are placed on government, then factor in the gargantuan changes that have taken place in the past seven decades: the end of colonialism, the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the narrowing of the North–South divide, the revolution in technology, and the increased mobility of people. By any objective standard, democracy—though everywhere tested—has not failed and is not failing. Why, then, do we feel so often that it has and is?”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid.
In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*!”
Source: Blue Remembered Earth
“Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.”
“Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, though canst never return!”
Source: Moby Dick
“Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being. It used to be refugee, but by now there was no such creature, no more refugees, only survivors. A name like a number -- counted apart from the ordinary swarm. Blue digits on the arm, what difference? They don't call you a woman anyhow. Survivor. Even when your bones get melted into the grains of the earth, still they'll forget human being. Survivor and survivor and survivor; always and always. Who made up these words, parasites on the throat of suffering!”
Source: The Shawl
“Consider an enemy may become a friend.”
“Consider an ordinary flashlight battery. Look at or visualize one. Can you imagine if the battery only had a positive end, but not a negative end? What good would it be if it had only a positive pole, but not a negative pole? It wouldn't be functional. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't even be a battery. Most importantly of all, from a magickal point of view, it wouldn't be charged!”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
“Consider another abstinence product: a gold rose pin handed out in schools or at Christian youth events. The pin is attached to a small card that reads, "You are like a beautiful rose. Each time you engage is pre-marital sex a previous petal is stripped away. Don't leave your future husband holding a bare stem. Abstain."Do we really want to teach our daughters that without their virginity they're nothing but a "bare stem"?”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.”
“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.”
“Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.”
“Consider: Anyone can turn his hand to anything. This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be (as Nim put it) "tied down to childbearing," implies that no one is quite so thoughly "tied down" here as women, elsewhere, are likely to be -- psuchologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Consider: Anyone can turn his hand to anything. This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be (as Nim put it) "tied down to childbearing," implies that no one is quite so thoughly "tied down" here as women, elsewhere, are likely to be -- psychologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
“Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.”
“Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.”
“Consider being more of a prudent detective when it comes to the statements and content online that is shared with you online.
Search for the objective truth in what they share.
Examine… Vet… Discern… every claim.”
“Consider bonsai
There but for constricting bowl
Would be a giant.”
Source: The Girl in the Basement
“Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters.”
“Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.”
“Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“Consider carefully what you hear.” (Matthew 4:24)”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.”
“Consider choosing the “here is how” over the “I know you can” types.
Consider connecting with those that have the authority and ability to show, educate, and help you create what you want….
Instead of those that only focus on vague directions, hearsay instructions, empty motivation and scripted hype.”
“Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?”
“Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study fluctuations in cotton prices, you find that the graph of price fluctuations in the course of a day looks basically like the graph for a week, which looks basically like the graph for a year, or for ten years. And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there... And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
Source: Jurassic Park
“Consider că acest volum nu este nicidecum destinat doar celor care au strămoși comuni cu ai mei, ci tuturor celor pasionați de istorie. Parcurgând paginile acestei cărți și descoperind amănuntele biografice ale personajelor, cititorul va putea afla detalii despre viața oamenilor de rând din ultimele trei secole. Prin ochii lor se poate vedea, de exemplu, cum trăiau odinioară țăranii olteni, munteni ori ardeleni sau cum unii dintre aceștia s-au ridicat prin propriile puteri și au ieșit din sărăcie. De asemenea, cititorul poate descoperi amănunte din viața unor preoți, învățători, meșteșugari sau negustori din secolele XVIII-XX, dar și legende transmise din generație în generație. Cel care va avea răbdarea să citească această carte va vedea prin ochii personajelor cum au fost resimțite de populație diverse evenimente majore din trecut, cum a trecut ea prin războaie, revoluții, ocupații străine, persecuții politice, prizonierat, crize economice, reforme, epidemii, migrații sau crime. Strămoșii mei provin din diverse zone ale țării, din Muntenia, Oltenia, Ardeal, Banat, dar și din afara granițelor României, de pe teritoriul actual al Bulgariei, Austriei și Cehiei. Majoritatea sunt români, dar printre înaintași se numără și germani (sași, șvabi, sudeți, austrieci), bulgari sau cehi. Și ca religie ei sunt diverși, pe lângă ortodocși existând lutherani, romano-catolici sau greco-catolici. Din punctul de vedere al clasei sociale, majoritatea strămoșilor au fost la origine țărani, dar mulți dintre ei au migrat către orașe în decursul secolului al XIX-lea sau la începutul veacului următor, devenind funcționari, meșteșugari sau comercianți.”
Source: Călătorind prin istorie, alături de strămoși. Povești cu țărani, preoți, învățători, negustori și meșteșugari din secolele XVIII-XX
“Consider data without prejudice.”
“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”
“Consider different viewpoints and you will discover endless ways of doing things.”
Source: Discover Cultural Intelligence: Your New Superpower
“Consider Elon Musk, the sole protector of anything like freedom of speech on the internet, who has been subjected to cruel and unusual lawfare by unhuman bureaucrats and activists.”
Source: Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
“Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.”
“Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.”
“Consider every event you attend as a school, and learn from other Ushers!”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook