Burned Quotes - Page 23

• I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

  Jim Garrison

  Fashion, Giving, Interviews

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• But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Fighting, Loss, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

  Pope Innocent III

  Views, Church, Dogma

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• Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

  Idi Amin

  People, Six, Germany

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• Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Passion, Men

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• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Revenge, Hot, Coal

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• Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

  Kevin Myers

  Country, Peace, War

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• I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

  Janet Evanovich

  Rejection, Letters, Cry

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• There is no tongue to speak his eulogy;
  Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes:
  Far easier to condemn his injurers,
  Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth.
  He to the realms of sinfulness came down,
  To teach mankind; ascending then to God,
  Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates,
  To whom his country hers refused to ope.
  Ungrateful land, to its own injury
  Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct,
  That greatest ills fall to the perfectest.
  And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice,
  That, as his exile had no parallel,
  So never was there man more great than he.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Fall, Eye

  "Michael Angelo, considered as a philosophic poet".

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• At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.

  Prem Prakash

  Looks, World, Incense

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• Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

  E. W. Howe

  Hate, Wonder, Stakes

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• Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Two, Ashes

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.200, Dell

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• In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Wise, Men, Land

  Hans Christian Andersen (2005). “The complete stories”, British Library Board

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• If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Games, Icons

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

  Simone Elkeles

  Fire, Playing With Fire

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• This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Mother, Autumn

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• I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  God, Hands, Covering

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• Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Secret Places, People

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.115, Penguin

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• [Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

  Paolo Giordano

  Break Up, Breakup, Empty Rooms

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• Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

  James Fallows

  People, Chinese, Coal

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• Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

  Joshua Homme

  Fire, Flames, Play

  "Queens of the Stone Age enlist army of skeletons for 'witch'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2005.

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• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Dark, Lakes

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Long, Done

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• Those who trespass in others' souls will always get burned in the end.

  Kazuki Takahashi

  Soul, Ends

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Cities

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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