Consists Quotes

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.

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

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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.

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 secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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.

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.

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

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

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

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.