Burning Quotes - Page 15

• ... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Light, Lamps, May

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”

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• Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Bible, Gratitude, Powerful

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Vermont

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

  Andrew Jackson

  Army, Government, Law

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• Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Fire, Talking, Apples

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• I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Desire, Looks

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• I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

  Zachary Levi

  Littles, Ends, Be Careful

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.

  George Clooney

  Country, Men, Culture

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

  Alice Munro

  Country, Phones, House

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.359, Vintage

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• It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

  Louis Bromfield

  Book, August, Long Ago

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Passion, Greed

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• What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Numbers, Recycling, Wedding Invitation

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Wise, Strong, Self

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• Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

  Edith Stein

  Waiting, Heaven, Energy

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Southern, Lasts

  Song: Southern Man

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• Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Going Out, Fuel, Fossils

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Desire, Ordinary, Achieve

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• The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

  Otto Ohlendorf

  Children, Men, Cities

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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• If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.

  Dorothy Cotton

  Mean, Fire, Water

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• When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.

  RZA

  Wise, Men, Self

  Source: www.complex.com

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