Burned Quotes

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Truth is error burned up.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.