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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. -- Robert Cecil
The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running. -- Charlene Weir
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. -- Sigrid Undset
Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating. -- Mariska Hargitay
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett
The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it -- Buddy Hackett
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. -- Jared Diamond
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. -- Arthur Koestler
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. -- Ray Davies
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. -- John Knowles
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. -- Leo Tolstoy
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -- C.G. Jung
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -- C.G. Jung
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. -- Mark Haddon
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer. -- Denis Hayes
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. -- Bertrand Russell
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. -- William J. Clinton
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. -- Albert Einstein
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. -- Thomas Ligotti
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. -- Ralph Borsodi
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic. -- Ethel Merman
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. -- Denis Johnson
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. -- Susan Sontag
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. -- William Ralph Inge
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. -- Jonathan Lethem
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation. -- Noel Redding
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20. -- Curt Weldon
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. -- Ambrose Bierce
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. -- Ved Mehta
The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people. -- Steve Crocker
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything. -- Albert Camus
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. -- John Hanning Speke
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . . -- May Sarton
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light. -- Luigi Ghirri
The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood. -- Zebulon Pike
All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. -- Yakov Smirnoff
Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash into whatever diner we were at. -- Stephanie Nelson
Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations. -- Kirby Page
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them. -- Jason Silva
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. -- Walther Bothe
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length ... -- Mary Russell Mitford
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other. -- Thomas Hobbes
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia -- Tracy Kidder
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. -- Tracy Kidder
I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. -- Christopher Fowler
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. -- Carl Jung
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow. -- William Lyon Phelps
The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea. -- Pope Pius IV
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. -- William Lyon Phelps
My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up. -- Ilona Andrews
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. -- Herman Hesse
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. -- Herman Hesse
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. -- Francis Bacon
I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis. -- Gabriel Chevallier
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net. -- Orhan Pamuk
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them. -- Albert Camus
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice. -- Craig Johnston
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever. -- Dervla Murphy
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage. -- Kate Zambreno
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. -- Rene Cassin

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