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Widow. The word consumes itself. -- Sylvia Plath
You fall in love, and it completely consumes you. -- Selena Gomez
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. -- Henry David Thoreau
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. -- John Updike
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too. -- Ivanka Trump
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it. -- Michael Medved
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. -- August Strindberg
Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims. -- Leeza Gibbons
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron. -- Samuel Smiles
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. -- Robert South
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood. -- Moshe Dayan
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. -- Charles Baudelaire
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -- Herbert Simon
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. -- George Orwell
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. -- Josiah Warren
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. -- Jorge Luis Borges
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars. -- Alex Shoumatoff
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans. -- Amy Lee
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life. -- Jason Isbell
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. -- Sara Blakely
To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it. -- Indra Nooyi
Fire consumes, but cold preserves. -- George R. R. Martin
Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ... -- Cynthia Ozick
Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it. -- Rubin Carter
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion -- Haruki Murakami
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. -- Max Lucado
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing -- George Orwell
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself. -- Jodi Picoult
Fear is the ghost of ancient.It consumes faithless human. -- Toba Beta
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender. -- Therese of Lisieux
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most. -- Azza Nazh
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice. -- Tim Lebbon
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. -- Karl Marx
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. -- Sam Vaknin
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. -- Benjamin Franklin
America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs. -- Dick Gregory
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction. -- Richard Artschwager
I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car. -- Jeff Koons
There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it. -- Gaston Leroux
China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. -- Henry Paulson
A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late! -- Arthur Guiterman
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word. -- Smith Wigglesworth
You want a love that consumes you, you want passion and adventure and even a little danger. -- Ian Somerhalder
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. -- Simon Baker
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. -- John Steinbeck
A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own. -- Mark Nepo
We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes. -- Justus von Liebig
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. -- Yehuda Levi
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue. -- Emma Goldman
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. -- Chris Hedges
Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it. -- Samael Aun Weor
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. -- Scott Westerfeld
If no one consumes these products, people will stop producing them. They will not build it if you don't come. -- William J. Clinton
The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to. -- Matthew Henry
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. -- George Edward Woodberry
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. -- Antoine Rivarol
Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is. -- Edge
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. -- William Butler Yeats
Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time. -- Doreen Virtue
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. -- Fausto Cercignani
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left. -- Isaiah
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. -- Jacob Bronowski
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. -- Rick Yancey
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero. -- Thomas Friedman
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it -- Michael Medved
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar. -- John Mackey
California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America. -- Jerry Brown
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. -- Jeanette Winterson
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The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants. -- Bill Moyers
When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population. -- Jason W Clay
Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions. -- Julie Bishop
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources. -- Tim Ferriss
I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire. -- Marilyn French
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime. -- Maurice Strong
Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open. -- David Spade
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come. -- Joel T. McGrath
A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put ketchup in a bottle that a toddler could control. -- Malcolm Gladwell
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. -- Marcus Aurelius
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you. -- Abbi Glines
The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people. -- A.J. Darkholme
A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool. -- Gautama Buddha
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize. -- Sam Storms
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive. -- Suzy Kassem
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. -- Robert Greene
Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine. -- Deepak Chopra
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. -- Dante Alighieri
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us. -- Lauren DeStefano
That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person -- Richelle Mead
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes? -- Michelangelo
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There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word. -- Smith Wigglesworth

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