Consumed Quotes - Page 8

• I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

  Ann Patchett

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

  Nora Roberts

  Wall, Glasses, Flames

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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Distance, Reading

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• To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Flames, Dying

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• Te lo explicaré. Para mí es más que un juego". Se toca el pecho y dice: "Cuando amas algo tanto como yo amo el fútbol, lo sientes dentro. ¿Alguna vez amaste tanto hacer algo que te consumió?". "Hace mucho tiempo". "Eso es lo que el fútbol es para mí. Es mi pasión, mi vida... mi evasión. Cuando juego, me olvido de todo lo que apesta en mi vida. Y cuando ganamos..." Baja la mirada como si le diera vergüenza admitir lo que está a punto de revelar. "Sé que va a sonar estúpido, pero cuando ganamos creo que pueden ocurrir milagros.

  Simone Elkeles

  Fútbol, Estupidez, Pasión

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• Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

  B. C. Forbes

  Confidence, Men, Organization

  "Keys to Success".

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• Tolerar el mal sólo conduce a más mal. Y cuando la gente buena se queda de brazos cruzados mientras reina la maldad, sus comunidades serán consumidas.

  Bob Riley

  People, Evil, Community

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• Si uno comete el acto de sodomía con una vaca, una oveja o un camello, su orina y sus excrementos se vuelven impuros, e incluso su leche ya no puede consumirse. El animal debe ser sacrificado lo antes posible y quemado.

  Ruhollah Jomeini

  Animal, Islam, Camellos

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• In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

  Pico Iyer

  Gossip, Too Late, Appetite

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 09, 2011

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• Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

  Hannah Szenes

  Christmas, Blessed, Heart

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• There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self, People

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• Lo que ofrecen los medios de comunicación de masas no es arte popular, sino entretenimiento destinado a ser consumido como comida, olvidado y sustituido por un nuevo plato.

  W. H. Auden

  Arte, Medios de comunicación, Política

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays", de W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

  John Owen

  Religious, Design, Heaven

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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• It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

  Jonathan Ive

  Life, Faithful, Precious Things

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• No debemos abrir la boca precipitadamente al acercarnos a Dios. Al contrario, primero debemos pedir a Dios que nos muestre qué y cómo orar antes de darle a conocer nuestra petición. ¿No hemos consumido mucho tiempo en el pasado pidiendo lo que queríamos? ¿Por qué no pedir ahora lo que Dios quiere?

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Past, Why Not

  "The Spiritual Man".

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• When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.

  Wes Fesler

  Hate, Fire, Hated

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• Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

  Andy Stanley

  Men, Soul, Vision

  Andy Stanley (2001). “Visioneering”, Multnomah

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• Accidentalmente consumí cinco galletas cuando no estaba prestando atención. Esas galletas son astutas, saltan como ninjas azucarados...

  Charles Dickens

  Fitness, Atención, Galletas

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• El cristiano debe ser consumido por la convicción de la infinita belleza de la santidad y la infinita condenabilidad del pecado.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Christian, Infinite Beauty

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• Todos ardemos en el tiempo, pero cada uno se consume
  a su propia velocidad.

  Jack Gilbert

  Time, Burning, Speed

  Jack Gilbert (2009). "Rechazar el cielo", p.19, Knopf

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• What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Jealous, Keys

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• Llega un momento en la vida de todo hombre en que le consumen las ganas de escupirse las palmas de las manos, izar la bandera negra y empezar a degollar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Miedo, Corte, Hombres

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• "In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

  Mother Teresa

  Amor, Jesús, Padre

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• El amor no pide nada a cambio, sino que busca a quienes lo necesitan. Y quién necesita más nuestro amor que quienes están consumidos por el odio y carecen por completo de amor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Valentines Day, Hatred, Needs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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