Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to… — James E. Talmage
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. — Alain Badiou
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of… — Umberto Eco
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being… — Madeleine L'Engle
And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly… — Terry Pratchett
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I… — Thomas Paine
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing… — C.S. Lewis
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters… — Michael Ende
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following… — Mother Teresa
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most… — Lewis Hyde
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate… — Thomas Paine
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular… — Mortimer Adler
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures,… — Mark Twain
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out… — Marianne Fredriksson
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.. — Martin Buber
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay
A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s… — William Gibson
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive… — Carrie Fisher
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. — Woody Allen
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the… — Kurt Vonnegut
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by… — Jonathan Edwards

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