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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana. -- Paul Carus
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. -- James Madison
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. -- Paul D. Boyer
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. -- John James Audubon
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. -- Anne Frank
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. -- Robert South
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis. -- Wilhelm Ostwald
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body. -- Thomas Bulfinch
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. -- James Patterson
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. -- John Nelson Darby
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. -- John C. Calhoun
The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food. -- Patti Davis
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. -- John Strachan
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium. -- Ivan Pavlov
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. -- Mitch Daniels
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? -- Annie Dillard
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. -- Robert Breault
I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink. -- Mitch Daniels
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. -- Ambrose Bierce
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. -- Francois Rabelais
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana
Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style. -- Kristoffer Rygg
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
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music. -- Klaus Schulze
Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings. -- Marc Cooper
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. -- Ernst Mach
[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68). -- Neil Postman
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list. -- Pliny the Elder
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker. -- James Jeans
My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends. -- Shraddha Kapoor
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized. -- Sallust
In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates. -- Frans de Waal
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group. -- H. Ned Seelye
The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men. -- Noah Webster
She was wearing a dark-red swimsuit consisting of two small triangles up above and a mere suggestion of something down below. If she took everything off, Dill thought, she would look a lot less naked. -- Ross Thomas
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