Burning Quotes · Page 20

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

— Paul Keating

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the…

— Ellen Key

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

— Swami Vivekananda

The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a…

— Bob Proctor

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

— T. S. Eliot

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the…

— Suzy Kassem

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a…

— Jodie Foster

“And so, with a torn sleeve and a keyboard on which cigarette ash can rest, writers ended up arsonists of recycled material…

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children…

— Boyd K. Packer

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should…

— Chuck Todd

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone,…

— Jacques Derrida

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn…

— Paul Washer

“If you don’t answer this door, I will do something drastic.” I frowned. “I can use the fire element, which means I…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;…

— Saul Alinsky

I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart.…

— Francis of Assisi

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology…

— Jeremy Narby

The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or…

— Martin Caidin

Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the…

— Ouida

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

— Anonymous

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

— Harry Houdini

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a…

— Eric Hoffer

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

— Tony Blair

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

— Geraldine Brooks

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting…

— Ally Carter

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one…

— Anonymous

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have…

— Pema Chodron

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all.…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

— John Green

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding…

— Christopher Hitchens

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

— Frederick Varley

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of…

— Hal Rogers