Quotes of Considerable - somelinesforyou

“ To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Volunteer solicitors will gain considerable asking power after they have made gifts of their own. ”

- Richard K Fox

“ If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands. ”

- Bob Feller

“ Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ”

- Sheldon Kopp

“ What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ”

- Louis L. Mann

“ Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. ”

- Edna Ferber

“ I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. ”

- Jet Li

“ Art is significant deformity. ”

- Roger Fry

“ It is a significant sum for those who invest in Russia. ”

- Boris Yeltsin

“ This is the most significant release of Office since Office 95. ”

- Bill Gates

“ I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big. ”

- Brigitte Bardot

“ Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. ”

- Ani DiFranco

“ O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who. ”

- Colin Baker

“ I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. ”

- River Phoenix

“ It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. ”

- James Watson

“ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ”

- Frederick W. Taylor

“ A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ 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

“ In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage. ”

- Unknown

“ It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. ”

- Jane Austen

“ The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence. ”

- Luis Albert Machado

“ The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. ”

- King Whitney Jr.

“ When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ”

- Walter Lippmann
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