I Quotes
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“I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.”
“I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.”
“I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.”
“I consciously worked with ‘influence’, purposely using elements from other people’s work in my own. This was exciting at first.”
“I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.”
“I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.”
“I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.”
“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”
“I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.”
“I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.”
“I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.”
“I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.”
“I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.”
“I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.”
Source: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving
“I consider a tree.
I can look on it as a picture: stiff column in a shock of light, or splash of green shot with the delicate blue and silver of the background.
I can perceive it as movement: flowing veins on clinging, pressing pith, suck of the roots, breathing of the leaves, ceaseless commerce with earth and air—and the obscure growth itself.
I can classify it in a species and study it as a type in its structure and mode of life.
I can subdue its actual presence and form so sternly that I recognise it only as an expression of law — of the laws in accordance with which a constant opposition of forces is continually adjusted, or of those in accordance with which the component substances mingle and separate.
I can dissipate it and perpetuate it in number, in pure numerical relation.
In all this the tree remains my object, occupies space and time, and has its nature and constitution.
It can, however, also come about, if I have both will and grace, that in considering the tree I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is now no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.
To effect this it is not necessary for me to give up any of the ways in which I consider the tree. There is nothing from which I would have to turn my eyes away in order to see, and no knowledge that I would have to forget. Rather is everything, picture and movement, species and type, law and number, indivisibly united in this event.
Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure, its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, are all present in a single whole.
The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it — only in a different way.
Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual.”
Source: I and Thou
“I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.”
“I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.”
“I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.”
“I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.”
“I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.”
“I consider all my films experiments.”
“I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.”
“I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.”
“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.”
“I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.”
“I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.”
“I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.”
“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”
Source: Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus
“I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.”
“I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”
Source: Works of Fisher Ames
“I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.”
“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.”
“I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.”
“I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.”
“I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.”
Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.”
“I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.”
“I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.”
“I consider competence in contract negotiation foreplay.”
Source: Two Steps Back
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
Source: Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a
“I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.”
“I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.”
“I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.”
“I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."”
“I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state
“I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.”