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consumed

«As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.»
Author: Antisthenes | About: Passion | Keywords: consumed, eaten, eating away, eat away, envious, rust
«Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.»
«Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.»
«In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished»
«But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.»
«Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: consumed
«For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: consumed
«Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.»
«It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.»
«If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled»

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