Consistent Quotes - Page 18

• I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

  "Sachin Tendulkar: 'Life would be flat without dreams" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

  Josh Turner

  Sports, School, Opportunity

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• I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

  Christopher Walken

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

  Martin Filler

  Character, Style, Towers

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• Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, People, Justice

  "The media's lies poison our system" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Men, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Character

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.

  Sarah Vowell

  Party, Independent, Thinking

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• The only truly consistent are the dead.

  Aldous Huxley

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Psychology, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Silly, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.135, Penguin

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• Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

  Richard G. Scott

  Teaching, Character, Choices

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• No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

  Anne Rice

  Garden, Civilization, Savages

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• The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Religious, Buddhist

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• One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Believe, Order

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.141

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• My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

  Francoise Sagan

  Character, Sides, Enough

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sports, Appreciation, Drama

  H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.161, Wildside Press LLC

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• We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Suffering, Valleys

  bell hooks (2008). “Belonging: A Culture of Place”, p.25, Routledge

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• At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Complicated, One Thing

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• I never said I was consistent.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Said

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fashion, Expectations, Action

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.242, Dell

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• They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Liberty, Citizens, Way

  "Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics".

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• I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

  David Levithan

  Personality, Style, Realizing

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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