Quotes About Considerable

You have courage, minstrel," said Piros. Alaric shook his head. "Less than you think, good Piros. But I have considerable curiosity, and that sometimes masquerades as courage.

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

A few paces along a winding lane, then in at a gate, and so up a drive partially swept clear of snow to a house of some considerable size built of granite.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.

Look here, Stevens, the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight.' 'We are well prepared, sir.' 'What happens within this house after that may have considerable repercussions.' 'Yes, sir.' 'I mean considerable repercussions. On the whole course Europe is taking. In view of the persons who will be present, I do not think I exaggerate.

The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.

She leaned back a little in her chair and looked at me in silence for a considerable time. Finally she said, "Of all the banks, in all the world, you had to walk into this one." "We'll always have Cambridge," I said.

Several important conclusions can be drawn from these studies. First, we have made considerable progress in combating conscious forms of bias and stereotyping.

We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. I know that sounds horrible and cruel, considering what happens to a lot of people, and it can't be the whole explanation. But it's a considerable part of it.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

stimulated in us, the mere presence of corpuscles of flame is not by itself sufficient, and since movement is required in addition, it is with considerable reason that I declare motion to be the cause of heat.

We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

the palace considerable; but the duke stayed huffy a good while

And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.