The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. — Pyotr Kapitsa Copy Share Image
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans,… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Like their parents, they will be devourers, for when they can no longer consume, they become limp, raw food. That is the… — Bev Jafek Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
In the tension between devouring want or simple need it's clear the only lines between the ones we preserve. — As I Lay Dying Copy Share Image
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
We want something desperately and we try to force the God to give it up before it is ready. We want everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image