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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• 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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• 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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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Heart, Literature

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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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• 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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• Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

  Mark Kirk

  Moving, Government, Gasoline

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• The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Writing, Soul, Mind

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• I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

  Danny Elfman

  Writing, Symphony, Desire

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• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  Ira Glass

  Issues, Interesting, Radio

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

  Michael Storm

  Bridges, Ends, Shows

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• Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Leadership, Fate, Flames

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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