Burning Quotes

• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, World

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baby, Pregnancy, Flames

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Desire, Fuel, Asking

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• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Poetry, Ashes

  "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.

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• What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

  Don Henley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Life Changing

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Jack Herer

  Fuel, Fossils, Carbon

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• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Principles, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.62, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Cotton, Balls

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Home, Fire

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• I saw my hometown burning that day.

  Rodney King

  Saws, Hometown

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Being Alone, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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• There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

  Alison Lurie

  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  Tanya Tucker

  Perseverance, Thinking, Desire

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• I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

  Gerard Way

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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• The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

  Harry Houdini

  Fake People, Eating, Performances

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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