Burning Quotes
1238 quotes by 956 authors
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is…
— Jacques Chirac
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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the…
— Richard Rolle
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
— George Meredith
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,…
— Justus von Liebig
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The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.
— Justin Davidson
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Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy. We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our…
— Woody Harrelson
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
— Ben Stiller
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know,…
— Bill Bailey
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As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more…
— Megan Fox
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One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a…
— Christian Slater
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The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have…
— Eartha Kitt
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