shit’s burning so close to you that your ass is on fire.

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

— John Steinbeck

The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the…

— Thomas Merton

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

— Kallistos Ware

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

— Jim Ross

He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where…

— Charles Dickens

Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob…

— Juan Donoso Cortes

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back…

— Marvin Hagler

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to…

— Ellen Key

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with…

— Raphael

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

— Marianne Moore

Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies…

— Christopher McDougall

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

— Brian Tracy

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and…

— Cassandra Clare