Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
— Epictetus
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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and…
— Francois Fenelon
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
— Sydney J. Harris
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
— William Hazlitt
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
— Eric Hoffer
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
— Pope John XXIII
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
— Ben Jonson
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
— Joseph Joubert
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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in…
— Franz Kafka
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
— Kevin Kelly
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The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
— Charles Krauthammer
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.…
— Milan Kundera
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Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
— Lillie Langtry
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
— James Russell Lowell
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and…
— Ignatius Loyola
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
— Gustav Mahler
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
— James A. Michener
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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other…
— George Mikes
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