Consists Quotes by Ali Smith, Joseph P. Bradley, Carlos Ghosn, Anna Quindlen, Ariel Sharon, John Marshall and many others.
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
The well-known inspiration for ‘Ulysses‘ is made clear by the title itself: Joyce‘s novel is based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey‘, under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus‘ extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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.
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
The standard model of particle physics says that the universe consists of a very small number of particles, 12, and a very small number of forces, four. If we’re correct about those 12 particles and those four forces and understand how they interact, properly, we have the recipe for baking up a universe.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I’ll be a happy man.
To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and – as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis – emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
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.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham’s ‘Girls’ is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one’s thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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?
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
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.
For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
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.
Usually my Easter reading consists of ‘Who Moved the Stone?,’ which gets dusted off annually and read, often in one sitting, to remind me of the miracle of redemption, resurrection and life after death.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable living. Often they’re unable to say what their occupation is, because what they’re doing now might be quite different from what they were doing three months ago.
My Spotify consists of… definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.
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.
Each organism’s environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
The Dangerous Alliance consists of the following – ‘The Advocate‘ Paul Heyman and ‘The Beast‘ Brock Lesnar. That Dangerous Alliance is the single most formidable faction in the history of sports entertainment. We don’t need Four Horsemen. We don’t need three Freebirds. We don’t need a Legion of Doom.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
Mumbai is more film based and cosmopolitan. It consists of a mixed community, but I personally feel that Delhi is more sophisticated and enjoys theatre more.
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
