Burning Quotes - Page 20

• The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Fire, People, House

  Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.296, Vintage

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• I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Heart, Grudge

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• We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

  David Paul

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Believe, Moving

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• Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Unique, Men

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• It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Special, Shadow

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• I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

  Raffaella Barker

  Sunset, Sea, Sky

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• What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Good Night, Sweet, Farewell

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• Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.

  Karen Rose

  Stress, Home, Energy

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Quiet, Late, Shows

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Fire, Shining

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• One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fire, Soul

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Issues, Long

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

  Edward Kennedy

  Exercise, Views, Order

  Constituent letter, 1997.

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• It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

  Mother Teresa

  Oil, Lamps

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• In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Order, Oil, Lamps

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• But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

  Mary Oliver

  Heart, Knowing, Burning Down

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

  Josh Fox

  Talking, Atmosphere, Climate

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• What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Soul, Trying

  "Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers". Book by Ann Evory, 1982.

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• Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Wish, Desire

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• I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there is such a great truth in that. You choose how you want to feel about what happens to you. I could have been a miserable failure. I haven't had anybody looking over me, and I've found my own way through optimistic exploration and fire-burning mistakes. I am a very happy person with an extraordinary life, so I must be doing a lot of things right. I really believe when you peel away the layers, the worlds is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Attitude, Mistake

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• Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

  Perrie Edwards

  Hate, House, Energy

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

  Ben Lindsey

  Winning, Issues, Atheism

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