Burn Quotes
1457 quotes by 1009 authors
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
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We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
— Clive Barker
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
— Stephen Covey
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St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift…
— Dorothy Parker
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It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would…
— Tim O'Brien
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Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is…
— Orson Scott Card
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..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
— Harlan Coben
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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
— William Wordsworth
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If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me…
— Joss Whedon
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I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives…
— Gerard Way
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I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones.…
— Elias Canetti
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The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
— Keith Ablow
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Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
— Steven Morrissey
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You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that much, didn't you?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have…
— Alice Hoffman
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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