Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
Ernst Mayr

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
Josiah Royce

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Aurelius Augustine

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Niklaus Wirth

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Robert Millikan

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius Loyola

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren