Consumed Quotes - Page 13

• Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

  Barbara Johnson

  Home, Son, Boys

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• When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving, Wife

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• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Shooting, Firsts

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• We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.

  Francis Chan

  Safety, Priorities, Purpose

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.131, David C Cook

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• The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom

  Kid Cudi

  Moon, Rooms, Doom

  Song: Soundtrack To My Life, Album: Man on the Moon: The End of Day, 2009

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• I was consumed by my love for Chris Colfer, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.

  Darren Criss

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• 'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Mind, Criticism

  "'American Sniper' Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize" by Matt Taibi, www.rollingstone.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

  Sally Warner

  Time, Track, Spending

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• If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Lust, Sensual

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

  Margaret Beckett

  Facts, Natural, Century

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• Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  Marquis de Sade

  Strong, Evil, Perfect

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

  John Ortberg

  Crazy, Idols, Soul

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• Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
  convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Drug Use, Law

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Skills

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

  Angela Davis

  Daughter, Queens, Kings

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• We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

  Kathleen Merrigan

  Mean, Get Better, Dollars

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• We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten – we need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Differences, People

  "Persistence Of Vision: Reading The Language Of Cinema". Martin Scorsese's 2013 Jefferson Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC., www.neh.gov. April 1, 2013.

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• Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.

  Stefano Pilati

  Fashion, Needs, Relevant

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Rare Person

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.67, Hay House, Inc

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• During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

  Jimmy Carter

  Oil, Environmental, Used

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• Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Selfish, Inspiration

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Curves, Class, Historical

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• There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

  Jane Austen

  Wine, Climate, Want

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.47

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• I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Mom, Dog, Learning

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