Consist Quotes

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?