Burning Quotes:

A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.

- Adolf Bastian

topic: Fire, Hands, Burning, Burning Bright

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

- Alana Beard

topic: Tree, Would Be, Burning

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

- Albert Camus

topic: Nature, Burning, Frigid

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Lamps, Burning, Rejoice

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Cat, Burning, Vegetarian, Burning Buildings

Every death is like the burning of a library.

- Alex Haley

topic: Inspirational, Library, Burning

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

- Alex Haley

topic: Library, Burning, Persons, Old Person, Burning Down

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

- Alexander Theroux

topic: Fire, Hands, Burning, Blacksmiths

His speech is a burning fire.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

topic: Fire, Burning, Speech, Burning Fire

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

- Ally Carter

topic: Pain, Hot, Burning, United We Spy

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

- Amadou Hampate Ba

topic: Men, Library, Burning

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Commitment, Degrees, Burning, Detest

Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

- Amy Bloom

topic: Sex, Mind, Burning, Great Sex, Candles Burning

How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.

- Anais Nin

topic: Stress, Burning, Birth, Rich Life

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

- Andre Breton

topic: Childhood, Mind, Burning, Surrealism

He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

- Angie Sage

source: Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black

topic: Smell, Dragons, Burning, Hamsters

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

- Anne Carson

topic: Burning, Body, Language

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Mistake, Burning, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Flames, Laughing, Burning

Life consists of burning up questions.

- Antonin Artaud

source: Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

topic: Life, Burning

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Worry, House, Burning, Remodeling, Burning Down

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Love, Heart, Burning, Burning Love

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

topic: Cutting, Fire, Burning, Inferno

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

- Augustine Birrell

source: Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

topic: Book, Burning

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

- Ba Jin

source: "Literary witness to century of turmoil". www.chinadaily.com.cn. November 24, 2003.

topic: Writing, Fire, Burning

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

- Barney Ross

topic: Fire, Black, Burning, Fire Burning

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

source: "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

topic: Taken, Desire, Burning, Burning Desire

If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Differences, Different, Burning

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, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...

- Bill Bailey

topic: Dollars, Burning, Bitter, Loathe

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.

- Bill Nye

topic: Hopeful, Coal, Burning

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

- Billy Graham

topic: Bridges, Burning, Behind You

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

- Billy Sheehan

source: Usa Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

topic: Important, Desire, Burning, Burning Desire

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Independence, Desire, Burning, Financial Independence, Burning Desire

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

- Buenaventura Durruti

source: "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.

topic: Church, Burning, Militant, Anti Religion

Burning is no answer.

- Camille Desmoulins

topic: Burning, Answers, Censorship

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

- Channing Tatum

topic: Grandpa, One Day, Burning, Hey You, Burning Buildings

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Suicide, Soul, Burning, Bursting Out

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Burning, Sun, Guts

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Burning, Mystery, Salvation

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Wings, Hot, Burning, Rage And Anger

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

- Chris Crutcher

topic: Burning, Embers, Flash

The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.

- Christopher Flavin

topic: Three, Nuclear, Burning

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

- Cillian Murphy

topic: Passion, America, Burning, Burning Passion

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

- Claire Bloom

topic: Ambition, Burning, Accomplished

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Juice, Burning, Bitter, Poisonous

I had so much fire in me and so many plans...

- Claude Monet

topic: Fire, Burning, Plans

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

- Cole Porter

topic: Burning, Hungry, Yearning, Burning Inside

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

- Colin Mochrie

topic: Rolling, Ems, Burning

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

- Cornelia Funke

source: Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House

topic: Book, People, Burning, Banned Books

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

- Criss Jami

topic: Stars, Ideas, Burning

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

- Dan Brown

topic: Memories, Mind, Burning

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

- Daniel Fried

topic: Country, Flags, Burning, Embassy, Flag Burning

Dont worry about people telling you to stop doing too much and that you will burn out. Burning out is mental, and if you are tough you can do anything.

- Dathan Ritzenhein

topic: People, Worry, Burning, Dont Worry

I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love...

- David Bowie

topic: Falling In Love, Energy, Burning

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

- David Luiz

topic: Burning, Painting, Sometimes

Who would bring light must endure burning.

- David Zindell

topic: Light, Burning, Endure

Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!

- Denise Austin

topic: Loss, Burning, Building

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Passion, Fire, Burning, Burning Passion

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

- Don Henley

source: Song: My Thanksgiving

topic: Light, Bridges, Burning, Forget The Past, Burning Bridges

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

- Don Paterson

source: Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

topic: Shadow, Burning, World

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

topic: Passion, Emotional, Burning, Life Is Not Worth Living

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

- Drew Barrymore

source: Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 10, 2001.

topic: Burning, Feels, Prove

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Burning, Dinner, Painting, Rainforest, Tropical

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Nature, Meals, Burning, Italian Renaissance, Rainforest

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

- Eavan Boland

source: Eavan Boland (2013). “New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

topic: Burning, Body, Flesh, Heretic

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

- Eddie Griffin

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2011.

topic: Bridges, Riding, Burning, Brooklyn Bridge

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

source: Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

topic: Book, Flames, Burning

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless

- Elizabeth Cunningham

topic: Shining, Burning, Shame

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

- Ellen Key

topic: Burning, Charity, Mouths

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

- Elliott Smith

source: Song: Let's Get Lost, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

topic: Beautiful, Bridges, Burning, Beautiful Places

The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning.

- Emil Brunner

topic: Fire, Church, Burning

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

- Emil Brunner

source: "The Word and the World".

topic: Fire, Church, Burning

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Self, Burning, Way, Dear Life, No Doubt

I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.

- Erin Heatherton

topic: Home, Burning, Way, Candles Burning

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

- Gavin DeGraw

topic: Party, Burning, Destruction

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

- George Carlin

topic: Heart, Two, Burning

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

- George Eliot

topic: Burning, Brightness, Saws, Burning Bush

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

topic: Book, Lamps, Burning

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

- Geraldine Brooks

topic: Book, Burning, Stakes, Ovens, Forerunners

It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

- Geri Halliwell

source: "Girl power comes of age" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

topic: Feminism, Needs, Burning, Labeling, Lesbianism

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

- Geri Halliwell

topic: Feminism, Burning, Bras

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

- GG Allin

source: "The Jane Whitney Show", July 16, 1993.

topic: Fire, Burning, Want, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

- Glenda Millard

topic: Stars, Fall, Burning

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

- Glenn Gould

source: Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.

topic: Art, Men, Burning, Combustion

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

- Grover Norquist

topic: Men, Burning, Idiot, Nevada, Burning Man

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

- Gustave Moreau

source: "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

topic: Passion, Burning, Abstract, Insignificance

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Nature, White, Burning, Starks, Ferocity

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

- Hanif Kureishi

topic: Fire, Burning, Tongue

After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

- Harriet Van Horne

source: 1969 On muggings in Manhattan. In the Washington Post, 26 Feb.

topic: Burning, Nightfall, Building, Burning Buildings

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

- Harry Houdini

topic: Fake People, Burning, Eating

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

- Hazel Henderson

topic: Country, Genius, Burning, Rainforest, Burning Down

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Book, People, Burning

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Heart, Lamps, Burning

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Fire, Burning, Hotter

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Life, Burning, Deeds, Thoughts On Life

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

- Hjalmar Schacht

source: "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.

topic: Loss, People, Burning

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

- Howard Cosell

source: "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

topic: Gentleman, Burning, Bronx

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

- Hugo Rahner

topic: Race, Tree, Burning, Tree Of Knowledge, Burning Love

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

- Ida B. Wells

topic: America, Burning, Shooting

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

topic: Guy, Style, Burning

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

- Ira Glass

topic: Issues, Interesting, Burning

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

- Irving Greenberg

source: Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

topic: Children, Burning, Made

Never Again the Burning

- Isaac Bonewits

topic: Burning

May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution, a living faith in its inspired origin, that we may always be found among those who shall support it to the last breath.

- J. Reuben Clark

topic: Support, Desire, Burning

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.19, Knopf

topic: Time, Burning, Speed

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

- Jack Herer

topic: Burning, Fuel, Fossils, Burning Fossil Fuels, Greenhouses

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

- Jackson Pearce

source: Jackson Pearce (2013). “Cold Spell”, p.153, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Burning, World, Things You Love

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

- Jaclyn Moriarty

source: Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Burning, Bombing, Screwed Up

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

- Jacques Maritain

topic: Believe, Burning, Baptists, John The Baptist, Salome

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

- James A. Baldwin

topic: House, Burning, Want, Burning House

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Burning, Misinterpretation

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

- James Hansen

topic: Long, Energy, Burning, Fossil Fuel, Burning Fossil Fuels

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

- James M. Kouzes

source: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1999). “Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Passion, Inspire, Burning, Burning Passion

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

- James Weldon Johnson

source: James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Race, People, Burning

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

- Janette Turner Hospital

topic: Writing, Burning, Gaps

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

- Jerry Pournelle

topic: Burning, Investing, Progressive

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Writing, House, Burning

After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

- Jessica Szohr

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Burning, Hungry, Calories

Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash.

- Jim Sterne

topic: Fire, Marketing, Burning, Fire Extinguishers

It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

- Jo Coudert

topic: Cooking, Burning, Ruins

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

- Joan Miro

topic: Light, Shepherds, Burning, Women Beauty

Do you smell something burning or is it me?

- Joan of Arc

topic: Smell, Burning

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 don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

- Jodie Foster

topic: Personality, Desire, Burning

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

- Joel Greenblatt

topic: Running, Ideas, Burning, Matchsticks, Dynamite

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash away one sin.  The everlasting burnings in hell cannot purify  the flaming conscience from the least sin.

- John Flavel

topic: Rain, Tears, Burning, Burning In Hell

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

- John Lasseter

topic: Father, Burning, Four, Bombing

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

- John Milton

topic: Support, Burning, Steps, Paradise Lost Book 1, Norwegians

Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

- Jordan Rudess

topic: Rocks, Tears, Burning

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Desire, Ordinary, Burning, Burning Desire

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- Joseph Brodsky

source: "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

- Julian Casablancas

topic: Desire, Burning, Records

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Men, Flames, Burning

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

- Justin Kan

topic: Trying, Burning, Hardest

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

- Kallistos Ware

topic: Fire, Cosmos, Burning, Burning Bush

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

- Kami Garcia

source: Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK

topic: Cells, Atoms, Burning

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

- Karen Maitland

source: Karen Maitland (2009). “Company of Liars”, p.84, Penguin UK

topic: Fire, Flames, Burning

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

- Katherine Heigl

topic: Burning, Bras, Opinionated

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

- Kyle Shewfelt

topic: Fire, Focus, Burning, Fire Inside

She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Vampire, Burning, Layers

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

- Larry Gelbart

topic: Nature, Amazon, Burning

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

- Lech Walesa

topic: Fire, Voice, Burning, Fire Burning, Burning Inside

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

- Lee Haney

topic: Water, Burning, Muscles

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Fire, Burning, Tables

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Love, Long, Burning, Live Love

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Writing, Poetry, Burning, Great Poet, Best Poetry

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

- Li-Young Lee

topic: Writing, People, Burning, Burning Bush

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

- Louise Labe

topic: Time, Pain, Burning

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Burning, Gansey

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

- Margaret Bourke-White

source: Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.40, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Purpose, Burning, Helping

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground

- Margaret Silf

source: Margaret Silf (2010). “2011: A Book of Grace-Filled Days”, p.228, Loyola Press

topic: Heart, Burning, Movement, Burning Bush, Holy Ground

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

- Marge Piercy

topic: War, Burning, Dinner, Incompetent

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

- Marion Woodman

source: Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

topic: Essence, Veils, Burning

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

- Mark Kirk

topic: Moving, Government, Burning

The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

- Mark Lynas

topic: Years, Burning, Six Year Olds, Methane, Rainforest

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

- Martha Ostenso

topic: Idols, Religion, Burning, Smashing, Crown Of Thorns

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

- Martin Luther

topic: Heart, Men, Burning, Slender, Unfathomable

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

- Martin Luther

topic: Fire, Shining, Burning

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

- Michael Catt

topic: Men, Burning, Forgotten, Burning Bush

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

- Michael Storm

topic: Bridges, Burning, Ends

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Fire, Burning, Theory

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

- Mohammad Khatami

topic: Country, Iran, Burning, Invaders, Burning In Hell

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

- Muhammad Iqbal

topic: Philosophy, Heart, Burning

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

- Muriel Barbery

topic: Sky, Black, Burning

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

- Nostradamus

topic: War, Cities, Burning

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes.

- Osamu Dazai

source: Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

topic: Burning, Hell, Unhappiness

The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.

- P. K. Page

topic: Fire, Firsts, Burning

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Patience, Burning, Splendid

It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.

- Paracelsus

topic: Cancer, Cutting, Burning

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

- Patrick Süskind

topic: Flames, Enthusiasm, Burning

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Desire, Burning, Action, Desire For Success, Burning Desire

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Desire, Burning, Action

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Burning, Building, Treats, Burning Buildings

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

- Pope Leo XIII

topic: Jesus, Heart, Burning

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Heart, Burning, Empty, Empty Heads, Burning Heart

By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Self, Inquiry, Burning

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

- Randy Cohen

topic: Lying, Fire, Burning, Burning Buildings

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

- Raphael

topic: Self, Burning, Gum, Sagging, Vindictive

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

source: Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”

topic: Light, Burning, May

Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning Keeps me glad to have been caught In the reckless raging fury That they call the love of God

- Rich Mullins

topic: Heart, Fire, Burning, Fire Burning, Heart Of Stone

Burn brightly without burning out.

- Richard Biggs

topic: Darkness, Burning

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

- Richard Kadrey

topic: Girl, Cities, Burning, City Streets

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

- Richard Siken

topic: Giving, Burning, Monsters, Burning Buildings

The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.

- Robert Crumb

topic: Sex, Passion, Burning, Burning Passion

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Passion, Desire, Burning, Burning Desire, Burning Passion

Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to cremate, which took so much more time and labor.

- Rudolf Hoss

source: "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

topic: People, Burning, Hours

Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

- RZA

topic: Fire, Alchemist, Burning

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

- Scott Westerfeld

topic: Eye, Long, Burning

It is natural for the immature to harm others. Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

- Shantideva

topic: Fire, Immature, Burning

Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

- Shoghi Effendi

topic: Essence, Different, Burning

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

- Solomon Northup

source: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.344, ShandonPress

topic: Agony, Suffering, Burning

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Faith, Life Is Like, Burning, Sinful Life

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

- Stan Freberg

topic: Night, Burning, Witch

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

- Stephen Ambrose

topic: Fire, People, Burning, Fire Burning, Explosives

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Cds, People, Burning

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

- Steve Toltz

topic: Thinking, People, Burning

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

- Susane Colasanti

topic: Dancing, Rooms, Burning, Mayer

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

- Susanna Tamaro

topic: Heart, Joy, Burning

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

- Susie Bright

topic: Hypocrite, Burning, Condemnation

This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Pain, Kissing, Burning

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Burning, Earth, Carousels