All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.
You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air?. . . You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.
They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
Certainty. . . lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.
Let my enemies devour each other.
All revolutions devour their own children.
I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
