Devoured Quotes

85 quotes by 77 authors

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches… — Axl Rose
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if… — Thor Heyerdahl
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and… — Margot Livesey
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world… — Celine Buckens
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We won't allow the people to be devoured by YouTube, Facebook or others — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from… — Abraham Lincoln
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud,… — Elie Wiesel
There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays… — Carl Linnaeus
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality,… — Mircea Eliade
Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. — Shirley Temple
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. — Christiaan Barnard
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for… — T.D. Jakes
And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had… — Stephen Colbert

Who Wrote These Devoured Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 85 Devoured Quotes, led by these top contributors: