Top 100 Quotes About Consuming
#1. No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. Consuming what is natural, good and untainted frees you, protects you, and realigns you with what is natural, peaceful and safe.
Bryant McGill
#3. I live in a world where school is in a precarious balance with social life, parties, and sports games. He lives in a world where school is all-consuming, and when his homework isn't, Star Wars and video games are.
Selena Brooks
#4. I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.
Sasha Grey
#6. The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#7. It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#8. Love was a desperate thing, fierce and ferocious, capable of consuming a man like invisible fire
Judith McNaught
#9. he had learned for mind control and for erasing the habit of worry that was consuming so many in our complex society.
Robin S. Sharma
#10. I will tie you up, sometimes in very intricate, time-consuming bondage. I will suspend you from things. I will play with and tease and torment your bound and helpless body.
Sayara St. Clair
#11. Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.
Mariella Frostrup
#12. People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.
Kimbra
#13. But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.
Alan Bradley
#14. I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.
Nimrat Kaur
#15. But it doesn't begin to convey how stressful and time-consuming an endeavor it is to make egg rolls, nor does it begin to suggest how much tension a person can create in a household by serving egg rolls that take hours to make and are not nearly as good as Chinese takeout.
Nora Ephron
#16. The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton
#17. The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.
James Gustave Speth
#18. During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
Martin Henderson
#19. Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
Don King
#20. It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia
#21. He took everything and I let him.
Demanding.
Feral.
Consuming.
Arthur was everywhere at once.
In my mind.
My heart.
My soul.
His taste.
His scent.
His heat.
Pepper Winters
#22. Something I didn't know I'd lost had suddenly been found. It was fierce and all-consuming.
Lauren Helms
#23. A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
Erica Jong
#25. When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Howard Shore
#26. For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.
Curtis Stone
#27. What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
Napoleon Hill
#28. In a sentence: Nature beatified the neurotic. A tendency to make quick albeit mostly false associations was deemed more evolutionarily beneficial than more reliable but equally more time-consuming rational cynicism.
John Zande
#29. Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.
From GLASS HALF FULL
Sarah Jane Butfield
#30. It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.
Elizabeth Lowell
#31. Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
Merlin Mann
#32. Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.
Maya Banks
#33. There you might celebrate that fact by consuming a Three Mile Limit, a drink that literally commemorated the end of U.S. territorial waters and the beginning of boozing. When
Ted Haigh
#34. She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.
Stephanie Garber
#35. Pleasure so exquisite that her entire body thrummed with it, and emotions so expansive and consuming that she didn't know where Lucien ended and she began.
Kitty French
#36. I can't take this pain away for her. I can't make it better. It's all I want to do - make it better - make her feel better, but I understand grief. It's a bitch. Grief has to work itself out. It can either consume you or you can move on and at this point it's consuming her.
Renee Dyer
#37. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
Paulo Freire
#38. Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms with those tedious, often emotionally driven details.
Connie Kerbs
#39. Always remember that hatred and love are equally consuming passions, and that in affairs of the heart there is a fine line between the two.
Karen Keegan
#40. What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.
Jason Kilar
#41. My need to be inside Isa is so all-consuming, I swear to fucking Almighty I could cream myself right at this moment.
Ella Dominguez
#42. Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful.
Nick Youngquest
#43. We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.
Carl R. Trueman
#44. I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
Michelle Shocked
#45. I don't want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.
James Rozoff
#47. Love has a way of consuming you. Making you lose all focus. But it could also lift you up and make your life that much better. Make you feel like it was the only thing in the world you needed.
A Meredith Walters
#48. Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry
#49. Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI.
Robert Rolih
#50. If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
Paul Stamets
#51. What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. She imagines me full of dead things, re-consuming that which I am trying to grow out of.
Neil Hilborn
#53. Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Aphra Behn
#54. There's a moment when fingers of heat race through your skin and light your clitoris. You start to get wet and your juices douse the flames of pain and erupt in an all-consuming pleasure. This is the joy of spanking.
Chloe Thurlow
#55. As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
Teresa Medeiros
#56. Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#57. It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Jennifer Haigh
#58. I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become,
during his earlier years of a miller's life.
Jane Addams
#59. The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again.
Lisa Henry
#61. The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
Padmasree Warrior
#62. He is not coming back. And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.
Lora Leigh
#63. It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.
Lynn Coady
#65. At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.
Laurie Lee
#66. Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
Farah Evers
#67. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
Malachy McCourt
#68. Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
John Williams
#69. The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
Evo Morales
#70. Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.
Lev Grossman
#71. Might it be that the Transition approach, of creating vibrant local economies with increased community ownership, meeting practical needs from as nearby as possible, and living well while consuming far less energy than we do today, could actually better meet our needs?
Rob Hopkins
#72. The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
Virginia Postrel
#73. As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.
Andrew Ference
#74. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
Lionel Shriver
#75. The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
Russell Sherman
#76. We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.
Tinashe
#77. He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him.
Sylvain Reynard
#78. There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.
Frank Luntz
#79. I've been wishing that there was someone just like him, and now that he's found me, I feel like he has the power to pull me though this madness that has been consuming me
E.K. Blair
#80. I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course. I really try to see writing as a career that I turn off when my husband comes home from work. Otherwise, writing could very easily become all-consuming.
Sarah Mlynowski
#81. It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
Angela Merkel
#82. Given enough time, guns and ammunition will eventually become so costly and time consuming to purchase, maintain, and insure that a ban will no longer be necessary. And that's what this is really about: control. Not of guns, but of us.
Glenn Beck
#83. With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
Peter Diamandis
#84. Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.
Tracey Gold
#85. I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.
Lucy Corin
#86. My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
Ashley Wagner
#87. The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
Martin Scorsese
#88. As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
Sharon Shinn
#89. Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#90. This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existence, and if he did not shield himself, everything he did not have to give would belong to her.
Danielle Monsch
#91. Fire swept through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, some of the palisades and even Reverend Robert Hunt's books.
Charles E. Hatch
#92. It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
Robert Breault
#93. 'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have ... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
Ian Harding
#94. We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.
Lisa Lutz
#95. I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.
Raf Simons
#96. Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.
Farshad Asl
#97. Their useless torches on dry hedges throw,
That catch the flames, and kindle all the row;
So burns the God, consuming in desire,
And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire
Ovid
#98. My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
William Butler Yeats
#99. The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are ... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
Frank Gaffney
#100. In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.
T. Colin Campbell
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