#consist

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#bail #clinton #consistently #efforts #european

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. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#besides #consists #done #elimination #getting

Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#change

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#consists #meaning #thing #value

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ↗

— Plutarch

#cause #consists #courage #fear #just

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#flexibility #ideas #change

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ↗

— Anne Frank

#build #confusion #consisting #death #everything

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #believing #beyond #consists #power

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#being #blow #character #consistent #deny