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Quotes About Consumed

I have almost forgotten that I have a relationship with film industry as most of the time political meetings, attending Parliament and meeting people of my constituency has been consuming my time.
~ Kirron Kher
This feeling of love, it transports me, it makes me happy. At the same time, it consumes me and makes me miserable, the way all impossible loves are miserable.
~ Philippe Besson
Ho cominciato con l'aspettare le donne, e il denaro, bevendo. E poi all'improvviso mi sono accorto di aver consumato la mia vita ad attendere, e sono intossicato a morte
~ Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
To be fettered to work means to be bound to this vast utilitarian process in which our needs are satisfied, and, what is more, tied to such an extent that the life of the working man is wholly consumed in it.
~ Josef Pieper
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
~ Antisthenes
I am consumed perpetually by an inner spiritual flame.
~ Quentin Crisp
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
~ David Ricardo
I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
~ Matt Reeves
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Evil is to life what contradiction is to reason. If an argument is contradictory, reasoning breaks down. If life is consumed by evil, life breaks down.
~ Ravi Zacharias
What if desire were to desire something other than objects?" the Tantric masters then wondered. If desire were simply the incandescence that gives us the feeling of being alive, were intensity, were the tremoring vibration that carries us, then it would be absurd to allow it to be consumed by objects and to lose it once we possess the object or realize we cannot attain it.
~ Daniel Odier
Since machinery requires force from without, its use always requires a search for consumable power. When we think of nature as resource, it is as a resource for power. As we preoccupy ourselves with machinery, nature is increasingly thought of as a reservoir of needed substances. It is a quantity of materials that exist to be consumed, chiefly in our machines.
~ James P. Carse
emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!
~ Donna Tartt
This is not an apartment in which fresh vegetables are consumed. It smells like a dead spice rack.
~ Douglas Coupland
I don't remember the precise contents of my essay, but I had thoroughly savored and consumed foreign films under my brother's tutelage, and as a movie fan I found many things in Japanese cinema that did not satisfy me. I undoubtedly gave vent to all my accumulated criticisms and had a fine time doing so.
~ Akira Kurosawa
I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
~ Lynsey Addario
Two of the pillars I focus on are the usual suspects, the state and markets. Many forests have been consumed by books on the relationship between the two, some favoring the state and others markets.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
Look at that Barkovitch. He ain't in it to get no Prize. He's just walkin' to see other people die. He lives on it. When someone gets a ticket, he gets a little more go-power. It ain't enough. He'll dry up just like a leaf on a tree.
~ Richard Bachman
Picture, if you will, Tommy, the fuse of a cannon. Now, when one touches a flame to a fuse, what happens? It's consumed bit...' He stepped toward her, so close that his boot toes nearly touched the toes of her slippers. She sucked in a breath. But she stood her ground when his knees brushed hers. '...by bit...' His voice had gone perilously soft. '...by bit. Until...' His breath fluttered her hair. His mouth was next to her ear now. 'Boom.
~ Julie Anne Long
Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside.
~ Karin Slaughter
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Those who tried to fill the void with passion, were engulfed by it's flames.
~ Meeta Ahluwalia
We were failures, all of us. We told him we had our reasons for the way things had turned out, but he didn't want to hear it. Told us that nothing consumed a man's soul more than the easy excuse.
~ William Lashner