Consistency Quotes

• 'There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • World
  • Important
  • Today

• Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Great
  • Music
  • Help

• The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Change
  • Flower
  • Imaginative

• I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Time
  • She
  • Eyes

• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  

  William Hung
  • Singing
  • Silly
  • Dancing

• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Work
  • Television
  • Jump

• We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God’s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord’s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • God
  • Important
  • Perfect

• You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Work
  • Children
  • Parents

• My commitment is to truth not consistency.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Commitment
  • Consistency

• I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Skins
  • Alligators
  • Suitcases

• Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Discipline
  • Consideration
  • Stewardship

• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  

  Arnold Gehlen
  • Art
  • Development
  • Consistency

• Winning streaks are impressive because it's a model of consistency. Streaks mean you haven't let your guard down and you've taken care of business when everyone knows what a difficult task that is.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Winning
  • Model
  • Streaks

• Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man;He’s ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-He’s ben true to one party, an’ thet is himself.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • True
  • Party
  • Smart

• I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Gay
  • Rights

• In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Consistency

• It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Dog
  • Consistency

• I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• Most players in this league say they want consistency.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Want
  • Players
  • Consistency

• I think the consistency comes from the parts.

  

  Aoife O'Donovan
  • Consistency
  • Comes
  • Parts

• The Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness!

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Work
  • Power
  • Christian

• Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Consistency
  • Vulgar
  • Jewel

• Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Different
  • May
  • Wise

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