Consuming Quotes - Page 2

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

  Holly Johnson

  Writing, Occupation, Time Consuming

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Creating, Goal

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

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• Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of God’s love for you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love You, Thinking, Infinite

  FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Aug 21, 2014

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• There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kindness, Scratches, Needs

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• The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hands, Goal, Jelly

  Brandon Sanderson (2015). “Firefight”, p.132, Delacorte Press

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• And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sage, Mist, Live By

  Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.

  Rob McElhenney

  Weight, Metabolism, Calories

  "Fat Mac: Rob McElhenney Goes Into Graphic Detail About ‘Sunny’ Weight Gain". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. December 18, 2017.

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• Consuming is an endless treadmill.

  Rob Pruitt

  Endless, Treadmills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

  Prince Charles

  Family, Knowledge, Joy

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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• Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Baby, Block, Book

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• The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into public and private persons, producing and consuming persons and so on, and the ways in which we as people negotiate and cope with those divisions. Stars are about all that, and are one of the most significant ways we have for making sense of it all. That is why they matter to us, and why they are worth thinking about.

  Richard Dyer

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

  Esther Meynell

  Home, Garden, Simplicity

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.

  Laurence Graff

  Dream, Passion, Reality

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