Quotes About Consideration

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

Lexi is still recovering. I don't want to overwork her. I think I want to take her back home and let her rest up for the day.

The "Appeal to Love" was an essential part of the very structure of the Shining Barrier. What it meant was simply this question: what will be best for our love? Should one of us change a pattern of behavior that bothered the other, or should the other learn to accept? Well, which would be better for our love? Which way would be better, in any choice or decision, in the light of our single goal: to be in love as long as life might last?

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

When people give you their two cents, you can either save it or spend it.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase...

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.

Think about those who deserve your time and emotions. Because, valuable things should never be wasted and should be delivered with care to those who deserve it.

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

No one deserved to be totally disregarded, as though their very existence was of no significance. Everyone deserved to be noticed. To be treated with respect. To be listened to. To be recognized as a fellow human being.

A man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman's sedulous attention.

Pero tenemos la obligación de esconder nuestro dolor para no aumentar el de los que nos rodean.

But is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?

How come you're staring at your drink?