Burning Quotes · Page 11

“Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't to it.”

— Charles Bukowski

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

— Amanda Palmer

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

— Maggie Stiefvater

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

— Beryl Bainbridge

“the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time.”

— Ray Bradbury

“She was melting inside. Melting and burning all at the same time.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

— Neil Peart

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

— Rumi

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

— Marianne Moore

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

— Brian Tracy

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

— Phil Harding

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning…

— Daniel Gilbert

I can't summon anymore gas!" Leo warned. The His faced turned red. 'Wow, that came out wrong. I mean the burning kind.

— Rick Riordan

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he…

— Richelle Mead

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

— Mark Ruffalo

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start…

— Dorothy Day

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if…

— Aleksandar Hemon

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and…

— C. S. Lewis

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this…

— Khaled Hosseini

Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in…

— Tobin Bell

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will…

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in…

— Warren Beatty

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a…

— Charles Dickens

One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they…

— Anonymous

Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a…

— David Emerald Womeldorff

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You…

— Art Garfunkel

Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's…

— Denis Johnson

“In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned…

— Manly P. Hall

I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the…

— Corey Taylor

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age…

— H. L. Mencken

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope…

— Anonymous

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

— Charlaine Harris

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

— Anne Carson

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

— Paul Gauguin

Jive for me always gets me panting and burning the most.

— Jenna Johnson

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

— Antonin Scalia

What we put into the atmosphere in terms of burning fuel is unprecedented.

— Sylvia Earle

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

— Alex Haley

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

— Vincent Van Gogh