Quotes About Consumption

It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.

This is what Henry does. He uses people up. He takes all they give him and more. When he is finished with them he is noisier and fatter and they are husks or corpses.

Tanken är en syra som fräter. Du tänker i början, att den blott skall fräta på det som är murket och sjukt och som skall bort. Men tanken tänker inte så: den fräter blint. Den börjar med det rov som du helst och gladast kastar åt honom, men du skall inte tro att det mättar honom. Han slutar inte förrän han gnagt sönder det sista du har kärt.

That's what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down

Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?

They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They'll drink up the whole world if we let them.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.

Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet

Circulating libraries were not as yet; if you wished to read a book, you were obliged to buy it, for which reason novels of the early part of the century were sold in numbers which now seem well-nigh fabulous to us.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

It has been calculated that ninety-three million women in all parts of the world have ruined their complexions, and therefore, their souls, by Pemberton's creams and lotions for saving the same; and that nearly three-tenths of the alcohol consumed in prohibition counties is obtained in Pemberton's tonics and blood-builders and women's specifics, the last being regarded by large farmers with beards as especially tasty and stimulating.

Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.

He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

He didn't say, Uncluttered is the privilege of the rich these days. Or: In a world of built-in obsolescence, saved means saddled with.

This is what happens to fire. It consumes itself.

Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world. We are like the small fish in the sea, the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones to take what's there.

Memories consume Like opening the wound I'm picking me apart again You all assume I'm safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.

Whenever I see fat people, they're eating," I ruminated safely out of the diner's earshot. "Don't give me this it's glands or genes or a slow metabolism rubbish. It's food. They're fat because they eat the wrong food, too much of it, and all the time.

Según el gilipollas del jefe, de lo que se trataba era precisamente de malgastar el dinero. Una empresa que mantiene en su local una temperatura tropical en pleno enero, y ártica en agosto, alentaba a los clientes a creer que el negocio iba viento en popa. Era un signo de prosperidad, igual que estar gordo solía ser símbolo de abundancia. Antes uno se podía permitir sobrealimentarse; ahora se podía permitir sobrecalefaccionarse.