Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

“In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)