Quotes About Consumption

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is.

Los ricos de hoy han olvidado que el dinero es un medio, no un fin. Ya no saben qué hacer con él.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Appetite comes with eating… but the thirst goes away with drinking.

I consumi in Cina sono oggi 11 volte superiori a quelli occidentali. Quando la Cina raggiungerà il nostro tenore di vita, i consumi mondiali raddoppieranno di volume.

Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people . . . Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

It kind of gets to you--all the waste. I can remember playing in the All-Star games, and how they'd have four or five pairs of shoes waiting for you. You go in there, grab a pair, wear them for the game, and leave the other four pairs lying there. How many kids in America could have used those shoes?

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

looking over the budgets of a number of the small landowners, whose position is much better than that of the average farm labourer, I found that as much as $5 was spent for wine, while the item for meat was only $2 per year. There are thousands of people in Sicily, I learned, who almost never taste meat. The studies which have been made of the subject indicate that the whole population is underfed.

If ever you wanted a 12-cylinder, 6-litre entire combustible world consumer, that man is Churchill.

Prime would eventually justify its existence. The service turned customers into Amazon addicts who gorged on the almost instant gratification of having purchases reliably appear two days after they ordered them. Signing up for Amazon Prime, Jason Kilar said at the time, "was like going from a dial-up to a broadband Internet connection.

Amazon customers who joined Prime doubled, on average, their spending on the site, according to a person familiar with the company's internal finances at the time. A Prime member was like a shopper who walked into a Costco warehouse for a case of beer and walked out with the beer plus an armful of DVDs, a nine-pound smoked ham, and a flat-screen television.

They ate like trash compactors with feet.

His food doesn't stick going down, does it?

the cook's art is wasted if it is not consumed. Eating is not destruction; it is culmination.

In 1950 the United States—with just 9.5 per cent of the world's population—was consuming 50 per cent of the world's raw materials.

The horse tires not of hay, the porcuswine will snuffle up his swill greedily unto eternity.