Burning Quotes
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We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.
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Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
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The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.
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What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
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In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.
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There’s this burnin’ in your chest, man. It’s like the colosseum, man.
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The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.
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Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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Burning is no answer.
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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. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
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There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
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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!"
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.
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In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!
