Constitute Quotes

277 quotes by 244 authors

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. — Adam Smith
Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as… — Lysander Spooner
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling… — John Strachan
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine… — Emanuel Swedenborg
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary? — Christoph Waltz
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because… — George Will
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any… — Jane Austen
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills… — Naomi Wolf
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases… — Marcel Proust
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for… — Marcel Proust
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully! — Lauren Myracle
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the… — Michel Foucault
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. — Muriel Barbery
The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially… — Viktor E. Frankl

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