Quotes About Consumption

Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires.

Who could put a match to money?

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.

What better place to look for trash than in America - the land of consumption and waste?

Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners.

Greed is an appetite that looks largely to some imagined or feared future.

La mayoría de los hombres no son más que máquinas que convierten la comida en mierda» —citó. Ivan le miró alzando una ceja. —¿Quién dijo eso? ¿Tu abuelo? —Leonardo da Vinci —respondió Miles al momento. Pero se vio obligado a añadir—: Pero mi abuelo me lo citó a mí

I decided the best way to lose weight is to stop buying food.

She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man.

Jack said, "No more buying books from Amazon till I've read the ones on my shelves.

The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.

Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.

the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...

when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.

Por Dios no lo gasto, el dinero se va solo sin que haga nada, desaparece sin que yo sepa como.

I do think we are and shall be great consumers.

He asks wether Christians eat gold. Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku. Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.

industry that spends $36 billion a year on marketing messages precisely to persuade us to eat more, and eat at different times, eat in the car, eat in front of television, and eat highly processed foods

we always feel our reality isn't enough. So we consume drugs and give ourselves artificial memories; we want to escape from the confinement of our lives. But I assure you that the only way to resolve the conflict is to learn to accept it and find your own place in the world.

For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.

They won't stop killing the whales. They make dog- and cat-food out of them, face creams, lipstick. They kill the whales to feed the dogs so the dogs can shit on the pavement and the people can walk in it.

Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Things are needy. They take up space. They want attention, and they will drive you mad if you let them.