Quotes About Consideration

Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. - Rimmer

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

I commend you on your skepticism, but even the skeptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidæ on our hands.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

No, said Arthur, no, he added thoughtfully. No, he added again, even more thoughtfully. What? he said at last.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?

At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

Marriage, especially at my age, is not to be undertaken without full–er–consideration. Equality of birth, similarity of tastes, general suitability, and the same religious creed–all these things are necessary and the pros and cons have to be weighed and considered.

In a case like this we have to take everything into account,' he said, noncommittally.

What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.

I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

But I believe that even without the consideration of his family he would find it impossible to live abroad. He would be a man without a purpose; for his purpose, his vocation, is Egypt.

We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!