I Quotes
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“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”
“I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.”
“I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice. . . . No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.”
“I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.”
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.”
Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers
“I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.”
“I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.”
“I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.”
“I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.”
“I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.”
“I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.”
“I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.”
Source: Recollections and Letters
“I consider the Stooges to be pop music.”
“I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.”
“I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.”
“I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.”
“I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.”
Source: The American Crisis
“I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.”
“I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.”
“I consider this book as my first. I have released many other projects before. But I didn't have full control in the revenue process. So, if I were a hip-hop artist, everything else I have released before would be my mix-tape.”
Source: Lessons from Toddlers
“I consider this is really the heart of England,’ said Clifford to Connie, as he sat there in the dim February sunshine.
‘Do you?’ she said, seating herself in her blue knitted dress, on a stump by the path.
‘I do! this is the old England, the heart of it; and I intend to keep it intact.’
‘Oh yes!’ said Connie. But, as she said it she heard the eleven-o’clock hooters at Stacks Gate colliery. Clifford was too used to the sound to notice.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.”
“I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962
“I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.”
“I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.”
“I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.”
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.”
Source: Young India: 1919-1922
“I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.”
“I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.”
“I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.”
“I consider where you might play now,
as I lay staring out at the horizon.
Plucking a petal, I whisper a message
and let it float into the gentle breeze.
The words will drift out of the garden,
across the changed roads we used to tread.
Circling new ground to find their feet,
they will learn a new language to speak.
[Seeking Sanctuary]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men but is a gift from God.”
“I consider working atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea to be far more dangerous than spending a year in Space.”
“I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.”
“I consider writing as a complement to who I am”
“I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.”
Source: Collected Works
“I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.”
“I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of literature. I have gotten people into tongue-tied snits unable to name for me one scene in which Yoda is ever helpful to anybody, or says anything that’s genuinely wise. 'Do or do not, there is no try.' Up yours, you horrible little oven mitt! 'Try' is how human beings get better. That’s how people learn, they try some of their muscles, or their Force mechanism heads in the right direction, that part gets reinforced and rewarded with positive feedback, which you never give. And parts of it get repressed by saying, 'No, that you will not do!' It is abhorrent, junior high school Zen. It’s cartoon crap.”
“I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.”
“I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.”
“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”
Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers
“I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.”
“I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.”
“I considered all these people, current and former staff, to be family. And I was so proud of what we’d done.”
Source: Becoming