Burned Quotes - Page 24

• It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

  Ned Rorem

  Rome, Evil, Perfect

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• On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

  Soseki Natsume

  Perseverance, Climbing, Vines

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• A woman's heart always has a burned mark.

  Louise Labe

  Heart, Mark

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• But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

  Ibn al-Farid

  Tears, Longing, Should

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• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

  Anne Hathaway

  House, Done, Remaining Calm

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Singers

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Forgiveness, Evil, Done

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Religious, Church

  Song: Inmates, Album: From the Inside, 1978

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Arrows

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.

  James Grant

  Business, War, People

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• Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

  Garth Brooks

  Risk, Lessons, Adages

  Song: How You Ever Gonna Know, Album: Sevens, 1997

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• I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

  Billy Joel

  Education, Fire, Long

  Song: A Matter Of Trust, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

  Dan Fogelberg

  Education, Pain, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Nether Lands, 1977

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• Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Divorce, Fire, House

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Taken, Sleep, Eye

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

  Madison Grant

  Rivers, Eels, Unqualified

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• May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

  H. Peter Loewer

  Morning, Philosophy, Spring

  H. Peter Loewer (1983). “Peter Loewer's Month by Month Garden Almanac for Indoor & Outdoor Gardening”

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• The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

  John the Apostle

  Angel, Fire, Blood

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• We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Sea, Roots, Rose

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.

  Diana DeGette

  Cutting, House, Saving

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• 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.

  Conor Oberst

  Together, Blind, Deaf

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.

  John Muir

  Pain, Islands, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns I knew fused into one, burned Together in the fire of my despising.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Fire, Cities

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• You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Thinking, Evil, Boxes

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