Burning Quotes

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

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

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

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

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

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

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

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

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

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.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.

I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

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

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.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

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

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

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

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

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

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

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

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.

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

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

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

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

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.