Top 605 Consuming Quotes & Sayings

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

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

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.

I didn't see myself doing TV. It's time-consuming.

We've given people both in print and even more so on TV these enormous doses of Donald Trump because people are consuming enormous doses of Donald Trump. If we had gotten a signal that John Kasich got as big an audience, believe me, you would have seen a lot more of John Kasich so it's complicated who's to blame, the media or the people consuming the media.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Sometimes when you see things online, it's very consuming.

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

I had a baby and that is pretty time consuming.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It's time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That's why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

'Law & Order' was amazing but so consuming, I couldn't get to the stage.

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

Acting in 'Game of Thrones' is all consuming.

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.

I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.

What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

Cease consuming, practice generosity.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

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

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

Consuming is the opposite of producing.

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.

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.