Quotes on Consideration

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Author: Felix Adler

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

Author: Salmon Chase

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

Author: Mark Hanna

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

Author: Samuel Hopkins

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Author: Nigel Kneale

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

Author: Wilfrid Laurier

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.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

Author: Kelly Lynch

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Author: Bryant McGill

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

Author: John Negroponte

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Author: Alfred Nobel

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Author: Thomas Paine

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

Author: Frederick Pollock

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).

Author: Ibrahim Rugova

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Author: Zoe Saldana

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Author: Richard Serra

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

Author: William Seward

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Author: William Simms

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Author: Edward Steichen

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Author: Fay Vincent

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Author: George Wallace