Consisted Quotes

115 quotes by 104 authors

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual… — Benjamin Franklin
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice… — Aravind Adiga
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton
Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone,… — Marcia Angell
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. — Albert Einstein
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is… — Chuck Hagel
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… — Gerhard Richter
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity… — Dervla Murphy
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. — Susan Sontag
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. — Ray Davies
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. — Charles Stuart Calverley
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted… — August Strindberg
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering… — Charles de Gaulle
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. — Buddy Hackett
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being… — Hermann Hesse
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little… — Carl Jung

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