When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness looking instead for authority validation and approval from others we give our personal power away.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Next to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy combination and arrangement.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
We remain at peace with all nations and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
With the CGI suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work and a lot of fun to make a life.
The only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
False riches consisting of money houses and lands acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.