#consist

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#discuss #friends #friendship #longer #measure

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#consistent #laws #nature #nothing #too

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

#consists #economy #feel #free #grow

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#appear #consistent #constant #development #dogmas

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ↗

— John Updike

#consist #every #learner #marriage #peasant

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#decide #fairly #generally #guess #i

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #am #dimension #edges #human

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

#dead #direct #enemy #forces #front