Consisted Quotes
115 quotes by 104 authors
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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted…
— Brooks Atkinson
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost…
— Bob Beauprez
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
— Paul Dirac
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
— Arthur Koestler
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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all…
— Fred Hoyle
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…
— George Wilson
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the…
— Adolf Hitler
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come…
— Ray Davies
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There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald…
— James Garner
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Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.
— Mariska Hargitay
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One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like…
— Ann Coulter
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Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
— Ved Mehta
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the…
— Hannah Arendt
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying…
— Tracy Kidder
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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