Burning Quotes
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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.
Whitley Strieber -
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.
Ray Bradbury
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My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The old dead coals fell to the wayside, warm ones sat glowing weakly on the edges; but the hot new ones, red and burning, poured their heat into the centre of cook fire.
Barbara Wood -
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
Arthur Plotnik -
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
Widad Akrawi -
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
Scott Westerfeld -
Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
Brom -
Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.
Eduardo C. Corral -
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?
Emily Bronte -
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner
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You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart -
What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
Norodom Sihanouk -
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.
Ezra Levant -
But this was true only for the duration of one of these seemingly durationless periods; figure and ground could be reversed, and when one was in the midst of some new intensity, kiss or concussion, one was suddenly composed exclusively of such moments, burning always with this hard, gemlike flame.
Ben Lerner -
A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's family doesn't like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a "kitchen fire".
Barbara Crossette -
Don't pet a burning dog.
Evan Wright
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Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.
Adi Da -
There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can something gain you a space in which to live.
Frans de Waal -
Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.
Mother Teresa