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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
— Albert Einstein
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
— Robert Cecil
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
— Bertrand Russell
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
— Denis Johnson
subscribed to the theory that life consisted of a long string of miseries, tolerated only because the alternative was worse.
— Amy Fecteau
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
— Ethel Merman
He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.
— Charles Dickens
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
— Ralph Borsodi
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.
— Jonathan Franzen
He held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
— George Eliot
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
— William J. Clinton
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
— Noel Redding
The temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
— Arthur Koestler
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
— Thomas Ligotti
Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.
— Harper Lee
The prevailing view that Smith criticized was mercantilism, which held that wealth consisted of the stock of precious metals in a country.
— Edd S. Noell
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
— Jonathan Lethem
Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water.
— Alexander Pushkin
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.
— Susan Sontag
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
— Carl Jung
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
— Buddy Hackett
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.
— Charles Stuart Calverley
The bank balance was Noel Constant's share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds.
— Kurt Vonnegut
He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.
— Patrick Suskind
The natives believed in the circle of life which consisted of three main functions or transitions in life, the birth, death and rebirth.
— Sally May
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway.
— Jim Butcher
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
— Mark Haddon
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
— Jared Diamond
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
— Ray Davies
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
— William Ralph Inge
Maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset,
— Elena Ferrante
He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
— Leo Tolstoy
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
— Denis Hayes
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
— Ved Mehta
Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
— Paulo Coelho
It consisted of nine levels, with docking facilities that could handle almost ten thousand ships,
— Mike Resnick
The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.
— Alexandra Bracken
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
— John Knowles
The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon