Consists Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

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

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.