Burning Quotes - Page 8

• Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, People, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.128, Penguin

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• Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

  Lionel Shriver

  Desire, Human Life, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

  Passenger

  Light, Snow, Missing

  Song: Let Her Go

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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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• The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way. He scatters faith, oppressing, burning and darkening us inwardly. We must look upon all such actions as illusions and falsehood, and break through this imaginary wall to the Lord, or to His Holy Mother, or His saints. As soon as you break through this wall you will be immediately saved. 'Your faith has made you whole' (Mt. 9:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Wall

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• Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Empty, Burning Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Real, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Love Is, Flames, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

  Timothy Keller

  Blood, Sweat, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.14, Penguin

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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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• All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

  Ellen Key

  Charity, Mouths, Incense

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