Burned Quotes

658 quotes by 509 authors

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their… — Ruhollah Khomeini
I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children -… — Ralph McGehee
They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few… — Jonathan Lethem
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;… — Rudolph Rummel
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin
The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of Nature which is… — William Walker Atkinson
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front… — Olympia Dukakis
They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what… — Ed King
America must be burned! America is no good at all. — Louis Farrakhan
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic… — Terry Pratchett
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely… — Karl Popper
The burned hand teaches best. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and… — Mark Twain
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas… — Vinton Cerf
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have… — Saint Augustine
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had… — Archibald MacLeish

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