Burning Quotes - Page 25

• I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.

  Nate Powell

  Echoes, Squares, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

  Desmond Tutu

  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Maturity, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a certain power but it's suicidal. They will never get over what they've done. And it creates sadists.

  Saadi Yacef

  Suicidal, Practice, Nails

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

  Lionel Shriver

  Desire, Human Life, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  A. R. Ammons

  Past, Men, Purpose

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• We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Important, Energy

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• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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• One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Lying, Restoration

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

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• On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

  Michael Bloomberg

  Rushing, Alive, Firsts

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

  Emily Blunt

  Beautiful, Nice, Thinking

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• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Heart, Kids

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• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Political

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

  Abraham Cahan

  Men, Fire, Example

  Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”

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• The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

  Julian Casablancas

  Desire, Records, Solo

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• We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

  Kevin Costner

  Eye, Hands, Wonder

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• I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

  Sloane Crosley

  Country, New York, Reality

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• Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

  Penelope Cruz

  Morning, Giving, Feelings

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• Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Running, People, Brave

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• The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

  Idris Elba

  Guy, Style, Villain

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• I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

  Jodie Foster

  Personality, Desire, Actors

  "Jodie Foster Searches for Her Child in Flightplan". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

  Thomas Frank

  Presidential, Desire, Needs

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

  William Hague

  Country, Exit, Building

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