Consider Quotes

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.

I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.