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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• All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

  Napoleon Hill

  Achievement, Desire, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.48, Penguin

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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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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baby, Pregnancy, Flames

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fire, Enthusiasm, Hotter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.364

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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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• There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

  Alison Lurie

  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  Tanya Tucker

  Perseverance, Thinking, Desire

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• I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

  Gerard Way

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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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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