Quotes About Considerations

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.

In attempting to counterfeit a self-esteem he does not possess, he makes his perception of reality conditional; he establishes, as a principle of his mind's functioning, that certain considerations supersede reality, facts, and truth in their importance to him.

What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

I trust you'll both keep in mind the political considerations that may arise as a result of this incident." Alevy stood. "As a political affairs officer, that will be foremost in my mind, sir. Foremost." "Splendid. Colonel Hollis?" Hollis remained seated and didn't reply. "Colonel?" Hollis said to Banks, "Once I bombed only politically approved targets. We lost the war.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

Pope's couplet again may possibly best convey the pomposity of some Idylls and the point of others. And there may be divers considerations of this kind. But, speaking generally, where the translator has not to intimate stanzas — where he has on the contrary to intimate that there are none — rhyme seems at first sight an intrusion and a suggestio falsi.

But such calm considerations do not mould history; it is not reason it is passion alone, that builds for the future.

Conceitos vulgares como "entretenimento" são muito mais adequados do que considerações pretensiosas sobre um fato de um escritor ser representante da pequena burguesia e outro, da alta burguesia.

all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar.

A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.

Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are really beneath the comprehension of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would rather keep my seat, and intend doing so.

The first is that the individual forming part of a group acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to' yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from ±he consideration that, a group being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.

The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective view of law and justice.

The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity." On the surface, it did indeed seem to be based on a crazy notion: space has no borders because gravity bends it back on itself.

They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live

In my view, it is unreasonable for EPA to exclude considerations of costs in determining whether it is 'appropriate' to impose significant new regulations on electric utilities.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Upon one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice, and humanity, there, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

As many masters viewed this moment, then, if they had acted from humanitarian considerations, they would have retained slavery, because of the protection and sustenance it afforded