Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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.
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
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.
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.
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 Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.
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.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of a people separated from the world so that we can be united in spite of - or perhaps better, because of - the world's fragmentation and divisions.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.