Consummated Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
— Jane Campion
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
— Emile M. Cioran
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of…
— Og Mandino
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
— John Lyly
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.
— Selwyn Hughes
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Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
— Andy Hargreaves
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This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
— Albert Camus
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...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they…
— John Cassian
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One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was.…
— Anthony de Mello
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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
— Virginia Woolf
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For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of…
— Theodor Adorno
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
— LaToya Jackson
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I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I…
— Oliver Reed
Who Wrote These Consummated Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Consummated Quotes as follows: