Burned Quotes - Page 12

• The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Reality, Fire, Terrible

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  Alan Moore

  Brother, Dragons, Black

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

  Suzanne Collins

  Skins, Bread, Heat

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

  Paullina Simons

  Too Much, Sometimes, Knows

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• I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

  Charlaine Harris

  Loss, Dust, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

  Denise Levertov

  Who I Am, Tree, Tears

  Denise Levertov (1979). “Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Humans, Destined

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

  Russell Baker

  Christian, Smell, Hypocrisy

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• Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

  Mark Plotkin

  Library, Dies, Ifs

  "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest". Book by Mark J. Plotkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 1994.

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• Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch you suffer. Tory: Why would you do that? He led her hand to his face so that she was touching his cheek as he stared at her. His eyes and the pain in them burned her soul deep. Ash: Because I don't feel broken when you look at me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.458, Hachette UK

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• I take it this is one of the ones crushing on you." "What? They all crush on me. I'm a hot college girl, remember?" I laughed and his eyes burned into mine. He leaned in close and whispered into my ear. "So hot. Now you've got me thinking what you looked like this morning, when i woke up with you in my arms, in my bed. Would it be too greedy to ask you to stay tonight, too?" "I was afraid you weren't going to ask.

  Tammara Webber

  Crush, Girl, Morning

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• The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

  Neil Peart

  Garden, Giving, Treasure

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• Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Cities, Voice

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Meaningful, Selfish, Reality

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, July 10, 2012.

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• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Strong, Hurt, Knights

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

  John Boyne

  Memories, Heart, Forget

  John Boyne (2009). “Mutiny On The Bounty”, p.162, Random House

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• They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Land, Claims

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• "Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.

  Ally Carter

  Running, People, Four

  "Perfect Scoundrels". Book by Ally Carter, February 5, 2013.

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• There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Technology, Fire, Village

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• Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

  Harry Crews

  Fire, Lakes, Air

  Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

  Coco Chanel

  Mean, Men, One Woman

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• You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.

  Mary Ruwart

  Freedom, Believe, People

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• But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Fighting, Loss, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

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