Quotes with consumes

  • 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.

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  • John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Robert South 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
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • August Strindberg 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
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • George Orwell Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges 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
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Charles Baudelaire 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
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Sylvia Plath Widow. The word consumes itself.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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