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“Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.”

Chance Depends Survival Resources Consuming

Author:George Monbiot

“Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.”

Facts Three Childhood Planets Eating Resources Sick Environmental Consuming Obesity Childhood Obesity

Author:David Miliband

“Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us”

“Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.”

“We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.”

“God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.”

“Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our hearts' (Sg. Of Sgs. 4:9). And it makes others bright and overjoyed. In this regard it has been said: 'My heart was full of trust and I was helped, and my flesh has revived' (Ps. 27:7). For when the heart is cheerful, the face beams (cf. Prov. 15:13), and a man flooded with the love of God reveals in his body, as if in a mirror, the splendor of his soul, a glory like that of Moses when he came face to face with God (cf. Ex. 34:29-35).”

“In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.”

Culture Creating Consuming

Author:Dan Gillmor

“I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.”

Way Real House Too Much Couple Cost Negative Investing Income Relative Estates Consuming Mortgage

Author:Chris Cooper

“Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of God’s love for you.”

Thinking Imagine Love You Amount Infinite Consuming God's Love Consuming Love

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.”

Way Long Made Book Purpose Plans Baby Stones Block Desert Etc Comparison Over It Towers Consuming Bourgeois Pyramids Time Consuming Jackals

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.”

Wells Littles Hands Stuff Process Goal Consuming Removal Jelly Sticky Donuts

Book:Firefight

Source: Firefight

“There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.”

Needs Kindness Excess Guests Dishes Sophisticated Scratches Need You Consuming Time Consuming

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.”

Reading Player Materials Reader Activity Fundamentals Comic Engagement Passive Comic Book Consuming Cds Dvds

Author:Grant Morrison

“Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.”

“I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely time-consuming. Film projects tend to drag on and on, which takes me away from the theatre, and then they don't get made. At the same time, the screenplays that have come my way have been quite challenging, for the most part, and even enjoyable.”

“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”

Years Believe Wanted Father I Believe Ambition Consuming Thumbs Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.”

Believe Wells Environment Cost Concepts Neighbor Our Environment Consuming Live Well

Author:Evo Morales

“One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.”

Language Force Visuals Subtle Consuming Life Time Fruition Profundity

Book:Road to Seeing

Source: Road to Seeing

“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”

Desire Remembrance Consuming Illogical

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.”

Mind Heart Soul Lord Commitment God Love Endeavor Consuming Lukewarm

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

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

Hard Causes Findings Consuming Good Causes Time Consuming

Author:Craig Newmark

“I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.”

I Can Stuff Fashion Consuming Time Consuming Love Fashion I Love Fashion

Author:Margaret Cho

“The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.”

Individual Products Saving Consumerism Savings Consuming

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”

Mind Imagination Imagine Shadow Hunger Certainty Substance Nevertheless Consuming Famine Prevailing Finality

Book:Debunking Science

Source: Debunking Science

“The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?”

Men Way Needs Beautiful Strong Common Impossible Promise Greed Being True Destroying Waking Powerless Consuming Heartbreaking Gorges

Book:The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

“I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.”

Way Findings More Time Consuming Time Consuming

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.”

Thinking May Bigs Might Today Community Gone College Taxes Broads Consuming Retrospect Community College

Author:Daniel J. Evans

“The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.”

Trying Helping Destruction Oil Bent Consuming Enabling

Author:Frank Gaffney

“Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.”

Ifs Looks Ends Produce Internet Pages Connected Comment Host Consuming Server Browsers Web Page

Author:Marc Andreessen

“The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the "Holy Grail" is economic growth.”

World Country Whole Desire Force Growth Blood Economic Holy Trade Determined Driving Whole World Better Life Economic Growth Consuming Driving Force Holy Grail

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.”

“I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.”

Stories Situation Accounts Storyteller Embarrassing Consuming Discouraging Time Consuming

Author:Etgar Keret

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