Burned Quotes
658 Burned quotes by 509 unique authors
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You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick…
— Michael Connelly
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Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
— George R. R. Martin
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As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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His eyes burned violet - not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you…
— Lauren Kate
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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
— Khalil Gibran
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They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog…
— Shane Jones
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so…
— Alicia Keys
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Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the…
— Mark Strand
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The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did…
— Richelle Mead
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Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.
— Jonathan Stroud
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Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he…
— Markus Zusak
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west…
— Cormac McCarthy
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it…
— Rob Thurman
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One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
— Terry Pratchett
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I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He…
— Chris Cleave
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No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the…
— Rachel Vincent
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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?
— Alexandra Adornetto
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But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
— Jodi Picoult
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