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Quotes About Consumed

There was a poison in him...and I drank it up.
~ Kristin Hannah
The point is, we're investing our labor on a product that is consumed immediately and brings in small change." "Big Shot!" their father said. "You rather spend your precious time jacking off? Then shoot your wad about your own business and not mine.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
With every morsel I consumed, I was informed that princes most love slender young ladies. As I was as interested in a prince's love as in sticking my fish fork into my ear, I reacted to this by cleaning my plate ever more thoroughly.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Memory is consumed by four things: the kernel, filesystem caches, processes, and intimately shared memory.
~ Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.
~ Gillian Flynn
Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
~ William Shakespeare
A heart consumed by bitterness turns to stone.
~ Rona V Flynn
My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
This is the very worst hour of the day. Vitality. Dull, gloomy : hate this hour. Feel as if I had been eaten and spewed.
~ James Joyce
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn't let go until I had to come up for air.
~ Priya Ardis
When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.
~ Henry Paulson
This is the female form, vapor, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable...
~ Walt Whitman
How many evenings did I stand in the middle of grocery store aisle, paralyzed with fear and indecision? It's not just the time I regret; it's the loss of who I might have been if I wasn't so consumed. It's who I might have loved, how I might have lived, what I might have accomplished. I might have been a force to be reckoned with.
~ Harriet Brown
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck".
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation and the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.
~ Pablo Neruda
But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.
~ Pablo Neruda
Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.
~ Padma Lakshmi
"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail."
~ Lamentations 3:19-21
I was struck with the consuming terror that the miser must feel for his hoard. It was so vulnerable.
~ Wilbur Smith
Whate'er is born of mortal birth    Must be consumed with the earth
~ William Blake
Son siempre los hábitos perezosos adquiridos los que se lamentan. Padre lo dijo: que Cristo no fue crucificado; fue consumido por el minúsculo tictac de unas ruedecitas.
~ William Faulkner
The four rules were clear: (1) Unblock revenue. (2) Minimize up-front cash. (3) Faster is better than best. (4) Use what you've got. These rules, taken together, ensured that cash wouldn't be consumed unless it was being used as bait for more cash. Spend a little, make a little more.
~ Chip Heath
This "moment-spotting" habit can be unnatural. In organizations, for instance, we are consumed with goals. Time is meaningful only insofar as it clarifies or measures our goals. The goal is the thing.
~ Chip Heath