Quotes About Consumption

We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

a liter of white gas a day per three people seems to be about right.

A man who works hard and uses his wealth to purchase jewelry to adorn himself, suits tailored in London, shoes handmade in Rome, and a hundred-thousand-dollar sportscar, which he drives cautiously and keeps in meticulous repair, will be view

I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me. A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day. A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.

Drink me without limit, my love, may your thirst fulfill you and never be quenched, since that word does not exist in any language

she ran to the little bed and seized hold of her beloved with a tender moan (my chocolate croissant, my little warm brioche), and began to eat her up with kisses. This consuming love never stopped. When Marie drank her coffee, she would nibble her daughter's cheek between two sips, the way others take a puff on their cigarette.

Guarda attentamente. La vita è ciò che vedi: membrana, viscere, un buco senza fondo che esige di essere riempito. La vita è questo tubo, flessibile, che ingoia e rimane vuoto.

C'est extraordinaire: vous avez donc passé vingt quatre ans à manger et à regarder la télévision? - Non, j'ai aussi dormi et fumé. Et un peu lu.

What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with hipness, coolness, edginess. So all kinds of youth all over the world are appropriating that style as a way of, sort of, countering authority, stating their rebelliousness, and wanting to be seen as significant.

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to find clothes that don't have some kind of negative impact on the planet.

I much prefer if someone buys something from us that they plan on wearing it and not selling.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience... you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.