There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly. . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. . . Is that because women are considered something less?
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
I've always considered myself a feminist, which is such a tough word for people. Some people immediately assume that you're angry or you hate men, which is obviously not true.
I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.
I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a justification to tell you, which I never considered valid because there is not an excuse for violence.
I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's, it's no problem of mine.
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
Originally I considered myself a singer.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.