Burned Quotes - Page 27

• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

  Ibn al-Farid

  Tears, Longing, Should

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• Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Fire

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• So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Children, Differences

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• When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

  Mira Grant

  Cat, Rome, Feds

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Cancer, Years, People

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• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.

  Laini Taylor

  Pulse, Radiation, Ifs

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

  Jim Butcher

  Daughter, Mother, Eggs

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• I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

  Al Davis

  Football, Passion, Greatness

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• I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

  Rebecca St. James

  Sadness, Ashes, Cry

  Song: Pray, Album: Pray

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• It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

  Ned Rorem

  Rome, Evil, Perfect

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• On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

  Soseki Natsume

  Perseverance, Climbing, Vines

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• A woman's heart always has a burned mark.

  Louise Labe

  Heart, Mark

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• Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Real, Book

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary;
  That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
  Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases;
  Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

  Everett Ruess

  Dream, Lonely, Sick

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• We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?

  Curtis LeMay

  War, Korea, Years

  "Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton". Book by Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan, p. 88, 1988.

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• I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

  Alex Haley

  Library, Today, Debt

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• Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Environmental, Energy

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• Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Animal, Criminals

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• JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Chinese, Religion, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Years, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Cds, Office, Microsoft

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• We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Filled Up, House

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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