Burned Quotes - Page 6

• I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

  Joss Whedon

  Halloween, Names, Vampire

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fear Itself)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Bridges, Behind You

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.953, Random House

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• You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up.

  Kurt Russell

  Real, Giving, Guy

  "‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Star Kurt Russell on Joining the MCU and Watching the First Movie [Interview]". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. March 24, 2017.

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• The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Jobs, Hands

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

  Jack Kemp

  Book, Fire, Library

  "Dole, in Choosing Kemp, Buried A Bitter Past Rooted in Doctrine" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1996.

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

  George Santayana

  War, Passion, Ambition

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.272, Рипол Классик

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• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Ignorance, Sacrifice

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

  Pete Townshend

  Flames, Fool

  Song: Slit Skirts, Album: All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, 2006

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• I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?

  Eve Ensler

  Spiritual, Believe, Journey

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

  Rose McGowan

  Fighting, People, Hearing

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

  Tom Rush

  Guitar, People, Office

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• the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

  Charles Bukowski

  Wine, Blood, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

  Gregory Galloway

  Winter, Long, Crumbling

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin

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• When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Lying, Passion, Past

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• ...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.

  J.R. Ward

  Soul, Insane, Together

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• The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Moving, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.6, Penguin

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• But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Purple, Luxury

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.242, 谷月社

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• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  Mark Skousen

  New Orleans, Cards, Investment

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• He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

  Charles Frazier

  Spirit, Cold Mountain, Cases

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

  Rick Riordan

  Smell, Scorpions, Mark

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Long, Alive

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• Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

  Tim Burton

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Lonely, Stars

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 06, 2014

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