Consumed Quotes - Page 8

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Ann Patchett

Book, Writing, Thinking

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He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

Nora Roberts

Wall, Glasses, Flames

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We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

Audrey Niffenegger

Girl, Distance, Reading

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To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

Mean, Flames, Dying

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I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?" "A long time ago." "That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…" She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

Simone Elkeles

Football, Stupid, Passion

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Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

B. C. Forbes

Confidence, Men, Organization

"Keys to Success".

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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Bob Riley

People, Evil, Community

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If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Animal, Islam, Camels

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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

Pico Iyer

Gossip, Too Late, Appetite

FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 09, 2011

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Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

Hannah Szenes

Christmas, Blessed, Heart

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There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

Demi Lovato

Stay Strong, Self, People

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

Art, Media, Political

"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

John Owen

Religious, Design, Heaven

John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

Jonathan Ive

Life, Faithful, Precious Things

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We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

Watchman Nee

Prayer, Past, Why Not

"The Spiritual Man".

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When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.

Wes Fesler

Hate, Fire, Hated

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Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

Andy Stanley

Men, Soul, Vision

Andy Stanley (2001). “Visioneering”, Multnomah

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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Dickens

Fitness, Attention, Biscuits

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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Thomas Carlyle

Inspirational, Christian, Infinite Beauty

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We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed.

Jack Gilbert

Time, Burning, Speed

Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.19, Knopf

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What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

Rajneesh

Anger, Jealous, Keys

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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

Mark Levin

Government, Class, Design

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There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

H. L. Mencken

Fear, Cutting, Men

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"In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Mother Teresa

Love, Jesus, Father

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Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Valentines Day, Hatred, Needs

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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