Devours Quotes

58 quotes by 50 authors

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's… — Graydon Carter
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does… — Charles Spurgeon
Morality, when formal, devours. — Albert Camus
Finance, like time, devours its own children. — Honore de Balzac
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the… — Albert Claude
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. — John Arbuthnot
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass… — Celia Thaxter
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. — Charles Baudelaire
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense. — Gautama Buddha
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order.… — Dorothea Benton Frank
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same. — Shunryu Suzuki
A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance. — Pat Barker
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. — Georg Buchner
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. — Sam Vaknin
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon

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