(36 quotes found)
“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.”
Bible
“Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital”
Houssaye
“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw”
Henry David Thoreau
“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”
Emile M. Cioran
“The teeth of a tigress holding its cub tenderly are the same that ferociously devour its prey .”
Dr. Anirudh Kapoor
“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”
“(They are) listeners of a lie, devourers of what is forbidden; therefore if they come to you, judge between them or turn aside from them, and if you turn aside from them, they shall not harm you in any way; and if you judge, judge between them with equity; surely Allah loves those who judge equitably.”
quran
“Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.”
“They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.”
“O you who believe! do not devour your property among yourselves falsely, except that it be trading by your mutual consent; and do not kill your people; surely Allah is Merciful to you.”
