Burned Quotes
658 quotes by 536 authors
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are…
— Scott Adams
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy…
— Jo Brand
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
— Summer Altice
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
— Carl Sagan
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart…
— John Bunyan
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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
— Thomas Reed
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course…
— Mary Alice
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and…
— Lydia M. Child
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.
— Edward Conlon
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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
— John Cleese
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
— Anatole France
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps…
— Nils Kjaer
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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of…
— Paul MacCready
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Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,…
— Clarence Darrow
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[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the…
— Francis Collins
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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