Burning Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Suicide, Time

  Charles Bukowski, “So You Want To Be A Writer?”

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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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• All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

  Napoleon Hill

  Achievement, Desire, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.48, Penguin

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• Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

  Allan Savory

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Leader, Honor

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• I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

  Abd-ru-shin

  Men, Soul, Wish

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• Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it.

  Paul Levine

  Stars, Believe, Law

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• Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Exercise, Energy

  Bikram Choudhury, Bonnie Jones Reynolds, Julian Goldstein (2000). “Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class”, Tarcher

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• I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

  Richard Siken

  Giving, Monsters, Building

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