Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Robinson

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Calvin Klein

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Johannes Tauler

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
Anna Quindlen

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
Alfred Russel Wallace

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
William Godwin

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
Raymond Radiguet