Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext…
— Thelonious Monk
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Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
— Clarice Lispector
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Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
— Democritus
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A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured…
— Thomas Carlyle
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True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as…
— Alexander Pope
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
— John Milton
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The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.
— J C Ryle
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...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of…
— Reinhold Messner
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy,…
— Unknown Author
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
— James Harvey Robinson
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which…
— Plato
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true…
— Plato
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There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you…
— Joel Garreau
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It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of…
— Unknown Author
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
— Wallace Stevens
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of…
— Leon Trotsky
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The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional…
— Gustav Heinemann
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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we…
— Rene Descartes
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Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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