Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

Freedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

In general the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time they need to feel like men.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord which is consistent with the Gospel but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week let alone this year.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara California Sunday 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Health consists with temperance alone.