Consume Quotes

370 Consume quotes by 318 unique authors

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is… — John Stuart Mill
The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for… — Frank Zappa
The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally… — James Cromwell
If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more… — Max Levchin
I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND… — Michael Arrington
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less… — John Redwood
I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it… — Dontrelle Willis
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us… — John Green
The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume. — Ben Elton
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for… — Mark Bittman
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that… — Tim Ferriss
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old… — Marvin Harris
Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some… — Niklas Zennstrom
In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to… — Clive Hamilton
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in… — Herbert Gold
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will… — H.G. Wells
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to… — A. Theodore Tuttle
Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our… — Michael J Cohen
Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if… — James Hunter
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to… — Vance Packard
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged… — Tracy Chapman

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