Quotes About Consumption

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Weeds eat seeds they don't produce

But no amount of economic and military aid can earn a foreign country the sort of good will that extends to parts of the Text intended exclusively for domestic consumption. While Chinese visitors to the war museum in Pyongyang are shown exhibits acknowledging their country's enormous sacrifice, locals are taken on another route where they see and hear no mention of it.

So saith Solomon, Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes? The personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner. Do you not see what feigned prices, are set upon little stones and rarities? and what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches?

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.

A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.

Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red.

Urbanization, falling poverty rates, and growing global trade have changed the diets and expanded the waistlines of the world's poor, with processed food and sweetened drinks becoming household staples.

People always talk about media ratings, but you really consume media in so many different places.

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.