Best Consumes Quotations
142 Consumes quotes by 128 unique authors
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.
— Ivanka Trump
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
— John Updike
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
— Josiah Warren
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
— Jeanette Winterson
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The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
— George Edward Woodberry
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Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self…
— Marilyn French
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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes…
— Michelangelo
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When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is…
— Paulo Coelho
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of…
— Mike Yaconelli
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and…
— Patrick Ness
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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the…
— Roland Barthes
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Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion
— Haruki Murakami
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I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because…
— Jodi Picoult
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Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
— Jodi Picoult
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Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit…
— Novalis
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Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
— Rick Yancey
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That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can…
— Richelle Mead
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So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and…
— Gary L. Francione
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I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It…
— Abbi Glines
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder…
— Mitch Albom
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