For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.
There are two major peace agreements. One is a comprehensive peace agreement that was consummated by the extremely beneficial intersession of the George Bush administration, who called on John Danforth, the former senator from Missouri, to negotiate a peace agreement after eight years during which President Clinton did not want to promote peace in the Mideast - I mean, in Sudan. And that's holding so far.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
