Burning Quotes

1238 Burning quotes by 956 unique authors

Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.… — Paul Auster
I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I… — Jodie Foster
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the… — Thomas Frank
What is to give light must endure burning. — Viktor E. Frankl
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply… — Newt Gingrich
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell
We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear… — Kevin Costner
I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere… — Sloane Crosley
Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven… — Penelope Cruz
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. — Gavin DeGraw
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. — Elizabeth Edwards
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. — William Hague
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen
I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power. — Katherine Heigl
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of… — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. — Don Henley
You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. — Jack Herer
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning… — Napoleon Hill
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes… — Napoleon Hill
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. — Lou Holtz

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