Devouring Quotes

71 quotes by 64 authors

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. — Pyotr Kapitsa
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body… — Ambrose Bierce
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption… — John Bunyan
In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By… — Cynthia Heimel
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and… — A S W Rosenbach
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal… — H. P. Blavatsky
See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd… — Alexander Pope
Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor. — Ruben Papian
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring… — Ruben Papian
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,… — Bertrand Russell
Cannibals are devouring senators. — Arlen Specter
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empireâ€”a crackpot machineâ€”that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They… — Neil Gaiman
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Haruki Murakami
Itâ€™s only when youâ€™ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase â€œItâ€™s a small worldâ€. It isnâ€™t. Itâ€™s a vast, devouring world,… — Clive Barker
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out… — Cornelia Funke
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it;… — William P. Young

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