Burning Quotes - Page 19

• But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

  Francis Thompson

  Serenity, Gold, Mold

  Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.13, A&C Black

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• A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

  Kenneth Clark

  Writing, Fire, Life Is

  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Martin Dieterle, Kenneth Clark, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1996). “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875): late paintings”

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Food, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

  Sebastian Junger

  Saving, Fireman, Warehouse

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.

  Glen Keane

  Falling In Love, Character, Mermaid

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

  Jon Ronson

  Land, Empathy, Understanding

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.

  Al Gore

  Country, Civilization, Forests

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

  Ezra Miller

  Children, Parent, Curiosity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

  Peter Kreeft

  Stupid, Mistake, Thinking

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• The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

  John Vianney

  Baby, Forgiving, Sin

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• The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

  Father Damien

  Powerful, Heart, Mean

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• Burning desire is the eternal flame.

  Douglas Horton

  Flames, Desire, Eternal

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• To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, House, World

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• As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fashion, Husband, Cells

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”, South End Pr

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• It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

  Sam Sheppard

  Opportunity, Easy, Easy To Get

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• A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.

  Tom Peters

  World, Littles, Boat

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• Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

  Daron Malakian

  Song, Artist, Hands

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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Racism, Minorities

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The Saints in Heaven through the Holy Spirit behold the glory of God and the beauty of the Lord's Countenance. But in this same Holy Spirit they see our lives too, and our deeds. They know our sorrows and hear our burning prayers. When they were living on earth they learned of the love of God from the Holy Spirit; and he who knows love on earth takes it with him into eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven, where love grows and becomes perfect. And if love makes one unable to forget a brother here, how much more must the Saints remember and pray for us!

  Silouan the Athonite

  Brother, Prayer, Perfect

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• I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Grace, Doe

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• All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Mean, Technology, Effort

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Fall, Civilization

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, Player, Games

  Frank Leahy (1949). “Notre Dame Football: The T Formation”

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• I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Hell, Walks

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