Burn Quotes
1457 quotes by 1009 authors
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human…
— E. M. Forster
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Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.
— Ryan Adams
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Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with…
— Diana Gabaldon
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She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof…
— Colum McCann
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A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning…
— George Carlin
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And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs…
— Meg Rosoff
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You arrogant, overpublicized, showy old bat, what are you waiting for? Aren't you the king of all bogeymen? The legend children fear will devour them…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
— Ray Bradbury
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think…
— Oscar Wilde
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A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why…
— Stephen King
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Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments…
— Muriel Barbery
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Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his…
— Chelsea Handler
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I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.
— Katie MacAlister
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
— Jenny Downham
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Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said.…
— Jim Butcher
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s…
— William Shakespeare
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As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skiesâ€)
— George Sterling
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Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
— Max Brooks
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