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The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.
— Roy Baumeister
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.
— Benjamin Graham
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
— Samuel Richardson
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
— Vladimir Putin
No poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared - but there, the deficiency was considerable.
— Jane Austen
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.
— Robert A. Dahl
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
— Oliver Cromwell
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
— Samuel Johnson
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
— Nellie L. McClung
When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.
— J. Budziszewski
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
— Maria Montessori
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
— A.P. Herbert
I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
— John Travolta
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
— Harry Oppenheimer
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
— William S. Burroughs
What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;
— Wendell Berry
The bride will keep her name and, after considerable negotiation, the groom will, too.
— Meg Waite Clayton
Though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it
— Herman Melville
It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.
— Edward Zigler
She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
— Bob Hope
We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
— Clarence Darrow
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
— Ferid Murad
I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
— Heinrich Himmler
We're all what we read to a very considerable degree. So
— David McCullough
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
— Carolina Herrera
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
— Henry James
Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.
— Townsend Whelen
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
— Robert Frost
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.
— James Herriot
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
— Martin L. Gross
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
— Masashi Kishimoto
Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out ... He was a considerable talent.
— Jim DeRogatis
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
— Thomas Carlyle
it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!
— Arthur C. Clarke
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
— Henri Poincare
I find all this money a considerable burden.
— J. Paul Getty
considerable amount in consideration of his services in
— Solomon Northup
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.
— Stanley Schmidt
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
— W. Eugene Smith
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
— William Godwin
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
— Edmund Burke
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.
— Paul Gillmor
Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.
— Charles Dickens
That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.
— William Herschel
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
— Mark Twain
Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared.
— Murray Leinster
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
— Epictetus
Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
— Edmund Hillary
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
— Fred Saberhagen
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
— William Shenstone
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
— Norman Douglas
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
— G. Stanley Hall
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
— Justin Somper
In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good. -Master George
— James Dashner
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
— James Boswell
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)
— Wendy O. Williams
Yeah, about that. I'm going to need considerable training before I jump when you use that tone with me.
— Ruth Cardello
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.
— Nick Harkaway
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
— Bertrand Russell
Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.
— Vasily Smyslov
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
— James Russell Lowell
I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.
— George Phillips Bond
I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
— Ruth Rendell
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
— George R R Martin
I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.
— Jane Austen
I piss on you all from a considerable height.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
