Burns Quotes

538 Burns quotes by 448 unique authors

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. — Unknown Author
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns… — Harry Houdini
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears â€“ and it does nothing. — Alexander Herzen
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically… — Marc Bolan
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,… — Reinhold Messner
Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care… — Tug McGraw
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with… — Marcus Buckingham
Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns… — Dave Gorman
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If… — Scott Weiland
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna
Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns. — L. Ron Hubbard
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such… — Sister Nivedita
Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen… — Rich Little
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we… — Marion Woodman
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. — Laozi
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here.… — Frederick Leboyer
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where… — Nancy Gibbs

Who Wrote These Burns Quotes

448 authors contributed a total of 538 Burns Quotes, led by these top contributors: