Consists Quotes

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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 our frail and feeble mind.

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.