Burn Quotes
1457 quotes by 1009 authors
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If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out…
— Alice Hoffman
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Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever…
— Tim Burton
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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
— William Butler Yeats
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Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover…
— Galway Kinnell
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As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
— Rudyard Kipling
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Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,…
— Khalil Gibran
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The phoenix must burn to emerge.
— Janet Fitch
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
— William Shakespeare
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Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced…
— Paul Rudnick
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I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought…
— William Saroyan
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It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let…
— Henry Van Dyke
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But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good…
— Dean Koontz
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Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake…
— Graham Chapman
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and…
— Joseph Heller
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In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts.…
— Haruki Murakami
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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.…
— Anton Chekhov
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
— Octavia Butler
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