Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. . . . It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
It's not "You might as well,"-it's that art was the only option. My last ayahuasca -vision was a very clear vision that I had to go back to the world. I'd been having these extreme jungle-based visions-having my bones cleaned by shaman spirits, being eaten by alligators or consumed by the earth and insects-basically unifying with all things through consumption by jungle creatures. Then my last vision was of getting on a plane and heading back to the West and just dealing with it.
What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.
Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.
I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
There is love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or like a stream which dries up when it doesn't rain. But there is a love that is like a mighty spring gushing up out of the earth; it keeps flowing forever, and is inexhaustible.
I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.