#consume

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#consumer #something #sore #who

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#consume #fretting #our #tomorrows #yesterdays

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate

We are just statistics, born to consume resources. ↗

— Horace

#consume #just #resources #statistics

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. ↗

— John Hutton

#broader #business #consumers #costs #easy

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#been #consume #every #including #oil

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ↗

— Dave Barry

#being #consumed #geographically #ireland #island

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#consumer #gun #guns #make #manufacturer

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american consumers #any #consumers #fat #floor

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives