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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
— Hector Berlioz
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
— Thomas Piketty
Morality, when formal, devours.
— Albert Camus
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
— Georg Buchner
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.
— Gautama Buddha
Is it not enough that I am devoured, without my being expected to bless the power that devours me?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brighton goes through English teachers like Hogwarts devours Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers.
— Shannon Lee Alexander
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
— Honore De Balzac
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
— Cornel West
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.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I have so much, yet my feeling for her devours it all. I have so much, yet without her all of it is nothing.
— Elisabeth Krimmer
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
— Samuel Beckett
In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).
— Gary Chapman
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
No, Your Grace. At the end a dragon hatches from an egg and devours all of the lions.
— George R R Martin
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
— Honore De Balzac
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
— T. S. Eliot
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
— Andre Gide
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore De Balzac
Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.
— Helen Foster Snow
(Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)
— Orson Scott Card
Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.
— Arsene Houssaye
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
— Honore De Balzac
But again the eternal question - what need is there of my humility? Can't I simply be devoured without being expected to praise what devours me?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The electricity devours my soul, fractures it open, and leaves it vulnerable and exposed.
— Jessica Sorensen
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
— John Dryden
The world devours the world to make the world
— Anne Rice
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
— Juvenal
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
— Robert Muller
Los Angeles is a mother that devours her children.
— Donald O'Donovan
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
— Will Cuppy
If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
— Steven J. Lawson
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
— Bill Vaughan
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
— Thomas Carlyle
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
— Henri Matisse
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
— William Matthews
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
— Ted Hughes
This school devours privacy, and rumors are like drops of blood in an ocean full of predators.
— Stephanie Kuehn
Wisdom devours the weak.
— Laird Barron
A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
— Pat Barker
Death devours all lovely things.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
— Charles Baudelaire
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
— Anthony Horowitz
The unfed mind devours itself.
— Gore Vidal
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
— Sam Vaknin
Whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.
— William Shakespeare