state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE.

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