#consist

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me. ↗

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

#foolish #little-minds #philosophers #philosophical

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. ↗

— Kristen Bell

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#consistently #drawn #extreme #find #i

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#consists #enemy #excellence #fighting #resistance

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. ↗