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

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Desire, Fuel, Asking

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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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• 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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• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

  Howard Cosell

  Gentleman, Bronx, Ladies And Gentlemen

  "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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• By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Men, Mind

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

  Don Henley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Life Changing

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Jack Herer

  Fuel, Fossils, Carbon

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• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Principles, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.62, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Cotton, Balls

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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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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• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Home, Fire

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• I saw my hometown burning that day.

  Rodney King

  Saws, Hometown

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

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• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Being Alone, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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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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