Top 155 Consists Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Consists Quotes from famous people such as Quentin Crisp, Austin Aries, Josiah Royce, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Edward Gibbon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberate

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.
Quentin Crisp
As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.
Austin Aries
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.
Josiah Royce
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
Jean Piaget
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.
Gustav Heinemann
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
John Bruton
My Spotify consists of… definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.
Danielle Bregoli
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.
Alissa Quart
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren’t yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic’s day consists of trying to keep that window open.
Roger Ebert
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
Isabelle Adjani
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov
If there’s a problem, I prefer to have to swallow that myself than force a team-mate to do so. I think about them because in my position that is what your job consists of.
Sergio Busquets
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.
Franz Halder
Since most of ‘Mean Girls’ consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in narration, this movie is just like home for the meticulous and ruthless deadpan that Ms. Fey has perfected for the satirical ‘S.N.L.’ newscast in which she and Jimmy Fallon are the anchors.
Elvis Mitchell
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
LaMarr Woodley
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
Tullian Tchividjian
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead
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.
William Godwin
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.
Jocko Willink
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an i

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Lysander Spooner
My fitness regimen primarily consists of power yoga, cardio and light weight training.
Rashami Desai
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.
Margaret Atwood
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell
The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive – that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They’re so easy to consume and so endlessly available.
George Packer
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
Alexandra Petri
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
Mikhail Bakunin
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Joseph P. Bradley
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison
Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
Sabine Baring-Gould
I know that ‘The Accident’ is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
Chris Pavone
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.
Hector Hugh Munro
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.
Ann Widdecombe
The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland