Consists Quotes

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

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 individual life making itself.

If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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 method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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 of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.