Burning Quotes - Page 6

• Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

  Amy Bloom

  Sex, Mind, Bombs

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• Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Empty, Burning Heart

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• You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arbitration, May, Diplomats

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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• In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Fire, Light

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• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  Savitri Devi

  Christian, Religious, Dark

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• I hope and hoping feeds my pain
  I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
  I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
  I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Laughter, Pain, Reading

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• I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessed, Sick, Healthy

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

  James M. Kouzes

  Passion, Inspire, World

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1999). “Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  Joan Lindsay

  Falling In Love, Art, Waiting Rooms

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Depth

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• Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dinner, Painting, Destroying

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• I am not like
  other people.
  I am
  burning in hell. The hell of
  myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Hell, Burning In Hell

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “New Poems Book Two”, p.117, Random House

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• True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Passion, Desire, Energy

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 28, 2012

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• It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

  Martin Luther

  Fire, Shining, Impossible

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• While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Book, Names

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.

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• A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Purpose, Helping

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.40, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

  Jim Ross

  Beautiful, Wwe, Two

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• The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

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• Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

  Havelock Ellis

  Opportunity, Society, Heroism

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Fall, Long, Miracle

  Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• 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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