Burned Quotes - Page 19

• A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, People, Forgiving

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.144, Penguin

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• I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Anger, Sides, Heretic

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• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

  Murray Kempton

  Martyr, Persons, Scourge

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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• Truth is error burned up.

  Norman O. Brown

  Truth, Errors, Truth Is

  Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

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• It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Stars, Passion

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• God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  God, Grief, Heart

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• My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Home, Heart

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• If with love thy heart has burned;
  If thy love is unreturned;
  Hide thy grief within thy breast,
  Though it tear thee unexpressed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Heart, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• ... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.

  Amanda Smith

  Country, Real, Home

  Amanda Smith (1893). “An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary”

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• My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sky, House, I Can

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.60, Random House

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• Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

  Albert Pike

  Dark, Blow, Air

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Law, Forgiving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.53, Graphic Arts Books

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  Kathleen Raine

  Lying, Farewell, Lakes

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.20, SteinerBooks

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• I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Daughter, Lying, Passion

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• I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Weekend, Pilots, Hiatus

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• 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?

  Duane Chapman

  Christian, Native American, Sharks

  "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

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• I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

  Eve Ensler

  Tired, Honor, Victory

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November/December, 2004.

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• Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Writing, Trying, Cameras

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• I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.

  Steve Spurrier

  Jobs, Careers, Coaching

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• A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Halloween, Humor

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• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Acting, Want, Monkeys

  "Zack Galifianakis On Set Interview - THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2009.

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• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Long, Goal

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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