Burning Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. — George Meredith
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. — Arthur Rimbaud
[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
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
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when itâ€™s burning down. — Justin Davidson
Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybodyâ€™s like, â€˜How can you remain with a level head?â€™ And Iâ€™m like, â€˜Why would I ever… — Jennifer Lawrence
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
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
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
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
One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert. — Gwyneth Paltrow
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
The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We donâ€™t have what we have… — Eartha Kitt

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