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Quotes About Consuming

Love is that flame which, when it is kindled, Devours everything except the Beloved.
~ Rumi, translator unknown
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
~ H. A. Overstreet
She sucks in her breath and lets the flames race along the comforter until they lick her and swallow her whole.
~ James Patterson
overwhelming.
~ Jan Moran
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
I have a sense that the USDA and the secretary who represents the USDA has always been seen as either a stranger or adversary to the farming community and a stranger to the consuming community.
~ Mike Espy
Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in desire, And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire
~ Ovid
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle
~ Henry Rollins
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
~ Russell Sherman
Angels are love in motion. They never rest, they struggle to grow, and they are beyond good and evil. Love that consumes all, that destroys all, that forgives all. Angels are made of that love, and are at the same time its messengers.
~ Paulo Coelho
Los placeres violentos poseen finales violentos y tienen en su triunfo su propia muerte, del mismo modo en que se consumen el fuego y la pólvora en un beso voraz.
~ William Shakespeare
Hatred is like a plague. It is all-consuming, and it springs from man to man.
~ David Gemmell
I got a job teaching seniors at an inner-city high school. My task is to get them ready for college. This school doesn't have that great a track record of graduating people from high school, let alone getting them into college, so my job can be intimidating to say the least. This is the most consuming job I've ever had. In fact, compared to this, my position at the megachurch was a walk in the park—but I wouldn't trade my current job for anything.
~ Unknown
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
~ Dennis Lehane
Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.
~ Daniel Gilbert
We were gasoline poured onto fire. With you I burned twice as high and hot. This is why you and I could never have stayed together. We would have consumed each other until there was nothing left.
~ Jodi Picoult
Loves a tidal wave...because it sucks you under and you drown.
~ Jodi Picoult
My whole desire is to burn myself away.
~ Hafiz of Shiraz
Remember, time is the most precious commodity we have, and under the stresses and pressures of everyday contemporary life, we often trade it for less than its real value. Everything we do is time-consuming, but very few things are time-repaying.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Man created in the divine image, the protagonists of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth-seeking and-consuming animal."22
~ Mark R. Levin
I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.
~ Sorin Cerin
and began to munch.
~ Unknown
What is depression? Its like a tornado, theres nothing you can do but sit and wait, and finally when the storm is over ... you are left with the destruction. The scars on your body, the puffy eyes from crying, the exhaustion from fighting a losing battle. It's consuming.
~ Matt Haig