Consumed Quotes - Page 6

• Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

  Gus Van Sant

  Rose, Drug, Brain

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• There's many a white hand holds an urn
  With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

  George Darley

  Heart, Dust, Hands

  George Darley (1908). “The complete poetical works of George Darley now first collected, reprinted from the rare original editions in the possession of the Darley family”

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Routine

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Mother, Emotional, Fire

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• But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

  Garth Brooks

  Fire, Desire, Causes

  Song: Standing Outside The Fire, Album: In Pieces, 1993

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

  Frank Zappa

  Movie, Music, Art

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Mean, Government

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• His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Selfish, Ambition

  Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”

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• Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Food, Mind, Should

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• I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Thinking, Trying, Hollywood

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• I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sadness, Chill, Solitary

  Song: All I Really Want, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

  Christina Aguilera

  Sadness, Trying, Emptiness

  Song: You Are What You Are, Album: Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits

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• Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Night, Agony, Remembrance

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• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

  Annie Baker

  Tongue, Terrible, Tied

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

  John Allen Paulos

  New York, Blood, Years

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• You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Revenge, Regret, Hate

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• In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Believe, Years, People

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

  Gordon Bethune

  Sports, Running, Team

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• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Fighting, Government

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• The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Six, Kind

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• I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it [marriage], but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized. I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time.

  Kate Middleton

  Thinking, Stronger, Made

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