Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
— Woody Allen
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
— Jean Cocteau
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of…
— Thomas Aquinas
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
— Duke of Wellington
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
— Emile Durkheim
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
— John Stuart Mill
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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
— Aaron Allston
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go…
— John Hay
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Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest…
— John Naughton
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
— Simone Weil
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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
— Mark Twain
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
— Mary McCarthy
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
— Woodrow Wilson
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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take…
— Sun Tzu
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
— William James
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
— Heinrich Heine
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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