Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
‐‐ Allen West
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria
Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.
‐‐ Norman Ornstein
Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.
‐‐ Michael K. Powell
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
‐‐ Gail Collins
Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.
‐‐ David Limbaugh
Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.
‐‐ Lucia Micarelli
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
‐‐ David Suzuki
Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve
Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.
‐‐ Janine Benyus
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.
‐‐ Suze Orman
Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
‐‐ Al Gore
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
‐‐ Paul J. Meyer
Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.
‐‐ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
‐‐ Ori Gersht
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
‐‐ Frederick Pollock
Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
‐‐ Louis Kahn
Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.
‐‐ James Hansen
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
‐‐ John Wooden
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
‐‐ Johann Arndt
Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
‐‐ Nathan Deal
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
‐‐ Karl Liebknecht
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
‐‐ Anne Boyd
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
‐‐ Al Gore
Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.
‐‐ Anders Holm
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.
‐‐ Anthea Turner
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
‐‐ Lynn Coady
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
‐‐ Mara Wilson
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
Considering I'm a young president, I wouldn't like to make an evaluation of myself. It's not my job to do that.
‐‐ Dmitry Medvedev
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
‐‐ Martin Filler
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
‐‐ Conor Oberst
Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
‐‐ Abby Wambach
Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac.
‐‐ Roustam Tariko