A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Joyce Carey

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
Ernst Mayr

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Dean Inge

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
Steven Brust

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
George Grey

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Alfred Marshall

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow Wilson

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton