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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• The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

  Harry Houdini

  Fake People, Eating, Performances

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

  Gustave Moreau

  Passion, Abstract, Irresistible

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe, p. 32, June 5, 1972.

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• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

  George Meredith

  Love, Jealousy, Bed

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

  Ben Stiller

  Taken, Desire, Actors

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• 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.

  Christian Slater

  Running, Baby, Kids

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

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• I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

  Cillian Murphy

  Passion, America, Burning Passion

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

  Claire Bloom

  Ambition, Accomplished

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• 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

  Tracey Ullman

  Ambition, Plans

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• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Lynching, America

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• If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Country, Iran, Hell

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• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Reading, Library

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

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• Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

  Lee Haney

  Water, Muscles, Fats

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• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

  Marge Piercy

  War, Dinner, Incompetence

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'What's that smell in the kitchen?'

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

  Albert Wynn

  Running, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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• 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.

  John Dingell

  Book, Environmental, Library

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• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  Barney Ross

  Fire, Black, Ships

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• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

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• The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.

  Robert Crumb

  Sex, Passion, Burning Passion

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