Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Consuming is the opposite of producing.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.
I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.
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.
I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No. 1 is sleep, No. 2 is work, and No. 3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.