Consuming Quotes

279 quotes by 260 authors

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. — Bruce Barton
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them,… — Julie Burchill
If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye… — Buzz Aldrin
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can… — Jarvis Cocker
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say,… — Clay Shirky
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long… — Frances M. Young
The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed. — Ronnie Lott
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem
Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving… — Charles Koch
Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting… — Thomas Merton
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. — David Guterson
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively… — Nel Noddings
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek… — Helen Prejean
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming,… — John Ralston Saul

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