Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
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.
One of my favorite things about working on 'Glory Daze' is getting to wear amazing '80s outfits coupled with fabulously over-the-top hair and makeup. My wardrobe usually consists of colorful sweaters, denim skirts, high-waisted shorts, crop tops, dangly earrings, jean jackets, and, of course, panty hose and shoulder pads.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
I eat steak primarily. That's pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
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.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
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.
The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
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.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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.
On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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.
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
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?
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.