Consuming Quotes
279 quotes by 257 authors
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I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community…
— Daniel J. Evans
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The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we…
— Frank Gaffney
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Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with…
— Marc Andreessen
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a…
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief…
— Sebastian Junger
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I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will…
— Etgar Keret
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No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.
— Rob McElhenney
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A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
— Esther Meynell
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Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the…
— Marva Dawn
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The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of…
— Brennan Manning
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires…
— William Shakespeare
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We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of…
— Frederick Lenz
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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who Wrote These Consuming Quotes
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