Burning Quotes

1238 Burning quotes by 956 unique authors

I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at… — Jonathan Adler
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. — Edmond Jabes
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning… — Kathryn Bigelow
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to… — Luther Burbank
I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You.… — Francis of Assisi
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone… — Luther Burbank
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the… — Walter Cronkite
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace… — Emily Dickinson
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and… — Marcus Garvey
We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were… — Will Rogers
Wavering and burning like a golden lie. — Matthew Sweet
I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces. — Frederick Varley
But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire...… — Phil Cousineau
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? — Arun Manilal Gandhi
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a… — Barbara Dana
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird,… — Mira Bartok
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. — Steve Toltz
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They… — Martin Caidin
I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power… — James Anthony Froude
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could… — Harper Lee
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort. — Harriet Van Horne

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