Devoured Quotes

85 quotes by 77 authors

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured. — Big Boi
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's… — Ross Douthat
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keatonâ€™s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. Heâ€™s the closest a human being has ever… — John Lasseter
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild. — David Gemmell
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years. — Ovid
An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves. — H. L. Mencken
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it,… — Rachel Cusk
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has… — Bette Davis
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be… — Voltaire
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories -… — David Walliams
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed… — Jodi Picoult
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. — Brandon Mull
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured? — Laurell K. Hamilton
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and… — Voltaire
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. — Otto von Bismarck

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