Burning Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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• If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Mind, Get Up

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• A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Fire, Hands

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• And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Artist, Flames, Sake

  Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831.

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• Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

  Alexander Theroux

  Fire, Hands, Should

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, Clouds, Air

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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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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• 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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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Effort, Individual, Courses

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Fire, People, Building

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Nhs

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Party, Destruction, Courses

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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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• Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Care

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• Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

  Stan Freberg

  Night, Witch, Saturday

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, House, Imagine

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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