Burning Quotes - Page 23

• When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

  Billy Graham

  Bridges, Behind You, Christ

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Lamps

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Self, Way

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

  Woody Allen

  Play, Literature, Lasts

  "Bullets Over Broadway". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• When we are old and these rejoicing veins
  Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
  And out of all our burning there remains
  No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
  This be our solace: that it was not said
  When we were young and warm and in our prime,
  Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
  Sleeping away the unreturning time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Men, Fire

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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• Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Dust, Flow

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 38

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  Karel Capek

  Stars, Flames, Hands

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

  John Masefield

  Truth, Men, Sea

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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• Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

  Sanai

  Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions].

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Humble, Science

  Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

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• We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Friendship, Crazy, Blue

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• You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Giving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Desire, Direct

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• Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

  Tom DeLonge

  People, Records, Selling

  "Angels & Airwaves' Revolution Has Begun — Just Wait 29 Years, Tom Delonge Insists" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Evil, Cry

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• All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Nature, People

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Coal

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.

  Jim Croce

  Memories, Bridges, People

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