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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• The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Giving Up, Drinking

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• We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Stuff, Too Much

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• A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Exercise, Years

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,
  during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

  Jane Addams

  Father, Believe, Ambition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Angela Merkel

  Sports, Europe, Games

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

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• I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

  Chris Cooper

  Couple, Real, House

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• Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

  Ann Veneman

  Impact, Brain, Would Be

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• Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

  Holly Johnson

  Writing, Occupation, Time Consuming

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• The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Oil, Trying, Enabling

  "Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg". www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2005.

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• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Life, Time, People

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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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• 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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• 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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