Burning Quotes

• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Flames, Way

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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

  Alexander Theroux

  Fire, Hands, Should

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• In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love Is, Fire, Order

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• For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

  Joan Miro

  Light, Dazzle, Sparks

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• If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Mind, Get Up

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• It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

  Adyashanti

  Flames, Hot, Consumed

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• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Flames, Tables

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

  Phil Cousineau

  Dark, Fire, Light

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.22, Conari Press

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• How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Cutting, Fire, Firsts

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

  David Luiz

  Painting, Sometimes

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• As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

  Robert Southwell

  Heart, Eye, Winter

  "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

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• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Ashes

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, Clouds, Air

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Desire, Fuel, Asking

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Care

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

  Stephen Ambrose

  Fire, People, Building

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Nhs

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Effort, Individual, Courses

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Cat, Eye

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