Burning Quotes · Page 3

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

— Martin Luther

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the…

— Robin Hobb

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

— Eavan Boland

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive…

— Cynthia Ozick

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within…

— Deval Patrick

Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not…

— Thomas a Kempis

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming…

— Thom Yorke

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears,…

— Robert Frost

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— Thomas Jefferson

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

— Ira Glass

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling…

— John Green

“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Paul Keating

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in…

— Terry Pratchett

I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical…

— Mas Oyama

“the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns”

— Natasha Trethewey

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

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are…

— Abraham Lincoln

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire…

— H. P. Blavatsky

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

Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart…

— Rich Mullins

She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy…

— Larissa Ione

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

— William Styron