Burning Quotes

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

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

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

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

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.

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.

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

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

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

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

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

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

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

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

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

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

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

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

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

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'.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

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.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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