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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. -- Ellen Glasgow
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. -- Aphra Behn
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. -- Hermann Hesse
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
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
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
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
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
Consuming is the opposite of producing. -- Noah Kagan
People find life entirely too time-consuming. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. -- William Shakespeare
I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming. -- Sela Ward
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. -- E. B. White
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. -- Giovanni Ruffini
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming. -- Randall Terry
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. -- Raoul Vaneigem
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next. -- George A. Romero
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers. -- Joel Fuhrman
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative. -- Ryan Lilly
I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it. -- Jerry Hall
Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. -- Bruce Lee
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick -- David Miliband
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. -- William Butler Yeats
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
Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.... -- Nick Gordon
"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.' -- Sandra Boynton
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
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
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
I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are out there listening to music and consuming music, I want them to enjoy it and love it. And so that's more important to me than Grammys. -- John Legend
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
I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. -- John Wooden
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. -- Holly Johnson
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. -- John Williams
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over. -- Jason Calacanis
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
I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most. -- Sasha Grey
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. -- Julia Child
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But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that. -- Jim Coleman
Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free. -- Curtis Stone
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. -- Virginia Postrel
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices? -- Vint Cerf
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
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce. -- Marc Andreessen
If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon. -- Buzz Aldrin
Cease consuming, practice generosity. -- Joan Halifax
Fundraising is very, very time-consuming. -- Arlen Specter
Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. -- Alessandro Nivola
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. -- Winston Churchill
I didn't see myself doing TV. It's time-consuming. -- Tyler Hilton
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. -- James A. Michener
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. -- Charlie Munger
Sometimes when you see things online, it's very consuming. -- Zendaya
Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming, -- Craig Newmark
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. -- Thomas McGuane
The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking". -- Amit Kalantri
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals. -- Tammara Webber
And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist. -- Mineko Iwasaki
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. -- Emma Donoghue
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else. -- Mark Addy
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. -- Alice Munro
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete. -- Raoul Vaneigem
We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival. -- Raheem Devaughn
I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals. -- Johnny Carson
The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed. -- Ronnie Lott
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. -- Frederick Buechner
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience. -- Hillary Clinton
Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight. -- Rob McElhenney
I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming. -- Kit Williams
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't. -- James Cameron
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming. -- Mike Crapo
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming. -- Maya Banks
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming. -- Dan Gillmor
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something. -- Ian Williams
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. -- Teresa Medeiros
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming. -- Jonathan Nolan
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. -- Peter Diamandis
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. -- Gary L. Francione
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. -- Dave Barry
When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular. -- Howard Shore
My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine. -- Danny Meyer
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. -- Scott Westerfeld
For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it. -- William Holden
I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are. -- Meaghan Rath
Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it. -- Saul Berman
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged. -- Dorian Yates
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure. -- Stanislaw Lem
Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. -- Farah Evers
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them. -- Paul Stamets
The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you. -- Bryant McGill
You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose. -- Peter Schiff
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. -- Merlin Mann
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy. -- Robert Breault
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming. -- Margaret Cho
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. -- David Guterson
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future. -- David Johansen
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing. -- Grace Hartigan
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. -- Orhan Pamuk
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point. -- Martin Scorsese

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