Famous Quotes & Sayings

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

The faculty have been working hard on this for a year now. We are starting a school improvement team which consists of faculty, parents, and students.

Stanley Hauerwas

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.

Charles Babbage

Another contrivance for regulating the effect of machinery consists in a vane or fly, of little weight, but presenting a large surface.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

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.

Ron Wyden

This voluntary program consists mostly of stuff they're already required to do,

What is success in this world? I would say it consists of four simple things -- to live a lot, to love a lot, to laugh a lot, and from it all, to learn a lot.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The cholinergic system consists of neurotransmitters that regulate a lot of our mental functioning, particularly related to memory.

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Jean Cocteau

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence in warfare consists of subduing the enemy without fighting.

Economic development consists of who can give away the taxpayers' money faster.

Mark Twain

Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Once we're done with the testing phase, then we're ready to start the launch campaign. That consists of having the rocket motor delivered, processing the motor and its igniter, and getting the rocket ready to go.

Patrick Carney

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.

This is of what consists in my opinion the irrational of our own existence, to look at our destiny always from the past.

This consists of 68 tons of relief materials, which is made up of 5,000 blankets, 320 tents and 4.5 tons of plastic sheets.

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

Jean Cocteau

A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Glenn Gould

The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.