Quotes About Consideration

And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people are concerned--even the people who love you--and that is all right. It can be lived with.

Machine idiolect. It doesn't matter how sophisticated they get, they still end up sounding like a playgroup learning box. I sighed and looked directly ahead at the slice-of-virtual-life holos on the wall. "You want out, now'd be a good time to tell me." "I do not want out, Takeshi Kovacs. I merely wished to acquaint you with the considerations involved in this course of action." "Okay. I'm acquainted.

You wouldn't consider riding me, would you?' he asked politely. 'You've lovely manners, she purred. 'But of course.

Do you have feelings for this kind man? You shouldn't ask her such a question, Frances Catherine said. But do you, Gillian?

He knew she needed time to sort the problem out in her mind. Because he was such a patient man, he decided to give her an hour or two to agree. He thought he was being very courteous, and cautioned himself against letting such consideration become a habit.

And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.

Our Master's Way," explained one of his pupils, "is nothing but this: doing-your-best-for-others (zhong) and consideration (shu)."3

Numbers people don't like being rushed, so back off.

Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay.

He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours.

Neighbourhood Watch to me is checking my neighbours aren't outside their house before I leave the flat, to avoid getting into long discussions.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.