Quotes About Consistency

I loved this about him. No matter how many times I asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.

He did not gleam like gold. He was not polished and perfect. But he was the same all the way through, like a block of marble cut whole from a quarry P.196

She is constant. Constant in all things. Even wise men go astray sometimes, but never her. She is a fixed star, a true-made bow[...] Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.

I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered me as if it were the first time

I had changed since then. I had gained strength and size, and a beard that grew if I did not shave it away. But she was the same. Of course she was.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony

The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

One of the most important aspects of being verbally assertive is to be persistent and to keep saying what you want over and over again without getting angry, irritated, or loud.

It's inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it

When parents are too irregular, inconsistent, or oversolicitous, or when there are unresolved problems between the parents, the resulting sleep problems converge, producing excessive nighttime wakefulness and crying.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Certainly

Qué importa el sitio donde yo resida, si soy siempre el mismo y el que debo ser [...] vale más reinar en el infierno que servir en el cielo.

That we affix no sense unto any obscure or difficult passage of Scripture but what is materially true and consonant unto other express and plain testimonies.

Whatever impeacheth the universality of obedience in one thing overthrows its sincerity in all things.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Izzy believed in redundancy.

in Yiddish or Hebrew-Russian-English or whatever: the word's nudnik. The best definition I've ever heard came from an Israeli professor of archaeology: "It's a person who is like a woodpecker sitting on your head, all the time pecking you.

The three rules of writing: 1. It's Work. 2. It's Work. 3. Surprise! It's Work.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.