Burning Quotes
1238 quotes by 1001 authors
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck…
— David Attenborough
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
— Ansel Adams
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material…
— Annie Besant
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party.…
— Aneurin Bevan
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
— Emily Blunt
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
— William S. Burroughs
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running…
— George H. W. Bush
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while…
— Abraham Cahan
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
— Julian Casablancas
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I…
— A. R. Ammons
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough…
— Marnie Reed Crowell
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer…
— Charles Spurgeon
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