Consists Quotes

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. — John Fowles
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. — Indira Gandhi
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. — Antonio Gaudi
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. — Edward Gibbon
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. — Oliver Goldsmith
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing… — Calvin Coolidge
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. — Norman Cousins
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this… — Quentin Crisp
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. — Quentin Crisp
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply… — Aleister Crowley
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should… — Alan Dershowitz
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. — Frederick Douglass
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. — Henry Drummond
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when… — Roger Ebert
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. — Thomas A. Edison
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. — Jonathan Edwards
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with… — Albert Einstein
Business today consists in persuading crowds. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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