Burning Quotes - Page 18

• Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Fire, Talking, Apples

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• I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Desire, Looks

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• When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.

  George Clooney

  Country, Men, Culture

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

  Louis Bromfield

  Book, August, Long Ago

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Passion, Greed

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Southern, Lasts

  Song: Southern Man

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Desire, Ordinary, Achieve

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• If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.

  Dorothy Cotton

  Mean, Fire, Water

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• When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.

  RZA

  Wise, Men, Self

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
  Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  William Blake

  Boys, Desire, Bed

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.120, Pearson Education

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

  Sylvia Plath

  Earth, Carousels

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• Despite my asbestos gloves,
  the cough is filling me with black,
  and a red powder seeps through my veins.

  Anne Sexton

  Fire, Black, Asbestos

  Anne Sexton, “Love Letter Written In A Burning BuILDIng”

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• The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Ideas, Censorship In Books

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.

  Tina Fey

  Party, Groups, Outcomes

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• Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

  Dennis Miller

  Yule, Information, Financial

  "Experts: Stewart's Downfall Is in the Details". www.foxnews.com. March 5, 2004.

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
  In books alone companions find.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Soul, Mind

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Differences, People, Ovens

  My War with the CIA: Cambodia's Fight for Survival ch. 18 (1973)

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