I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
The unfed mind devours itself.
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.
Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
Death devours all lovely things.
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
