Quotes About Consideration

Ought one ever to play at make-believe with a full-grown man for any consideration whatever—even though he be a parson, and a possible father-in-law? There's a case of conscience for you!

Knocking, it's a thing," I told him. "You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.

What"s that?" "That"s a steak for me and mushroom pasta for you. The pasta is made with tofu and palm oil instead of eggs. I cooked it myself. My steak is wrapped in several layers of foil. It"s not touching the container with your food, so no worries.

Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità, sia nella tua persona, sia nella persona di ogni altro, sempre anche come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.

Most important quality in the man of your dreams? No, my dears, it isn't great hair. Or even killer abs. In my book, it's selflessness. Give me a man who puts others before himself, and that's a man I'll keep.

Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.

One should never tell anything to somebody who won't think about it right. Or is this too timid a doctrine?

I never thought that, in the sense of believing it. It is merely an alternative to be considered.

No puede esperarse que el Universo respete las emociones humanas. Envejecerá y morirá sin consideración alguna para con los lamentos del hombre, y sus componentes seguirán alejándose unos de otros en un proceso de eterna expansión incluso después de que las galaxias se hayan consumido hasta convertirse en cenizas de enanas blancas.

It is written that it is better to be burned in a kiln than to shame another," my father said.

not only serve the meal, they offer to cut the meat.

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

Apropos of the observatory

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.