Consuming Quotes

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Enemy

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.199, Cornell University Press

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Boston

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

  Bruce Barton

  Elements, Essentials, Belief

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Work, Survival, Atheism

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.142, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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• The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Education, Teacher, Light

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• I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

  George A. Romero

  Zombie, Next, Revolution

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  Aphra Behn

  Jealousy, Solitude, Secret

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.169, 谷月社

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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• 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

  Work Out, Paper, Computer

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• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Smile, Pain, Anger

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• I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

  Jerry Hall

  Acting, Modeling, Pursue

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• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  Randall Terry

  Pain, Healing, Process

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• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

  Marvin Harris

  Technique, Sugar, Revolution

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• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Skins

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

  John Wooden

  Golf, Found, Enjoy

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• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Pages, Host

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.

  Paul Stamets

  Thinking, Mushrooms, Eating

  "Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Remembrance, Desire, Illogical

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• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Life, Time, People

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• I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

  Tom Cruise

  Life, Thinking, Knowing

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• I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

  Daniel J. Evans

  College, Thinking, Community

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• I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

  Jay Roach

  Get Better, Quality, Population

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

  Sela Ward

  Spas, Time Consuming, Decided

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