Burning Quotes - Page 39

• As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Fire, Self

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• One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Woods

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• The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mother, Country, Children

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• You know what is good about these Dixie Chicks burnings or bashings? It's a wonderful, wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet, they throw some things on the fire, they talk about Vin Diesel, they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is, they exchange phone numbers and in some cases has led to marriages.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Fire, Phones

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• President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well in North America [on screen: '36% Approval'], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: 'Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps'], Europe seems to think the president doesn't care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he's done for their burning effigy industry.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Eight, Europe

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• When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

  Colin Mochrie

  Ems, Rolling, Chopping

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• Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

  Jordan Rudess

  Rocks, Tears, Signatures

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• New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

  Bill Maher

  Night, Men, White

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• And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

  Michael Berryman

  Missing You, War, Book

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• When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Children, Fall, Escaping

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• When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

  Richard Kadrey

  Thinking, Fire, House

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• The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

  Kallistos Ware

  Fire, Cosmos, Divine Power

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• But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

  Karen Maitland

  Fire, Flames, Painful

  Karen Maitland (2009). “Company of Liars”, p.84, Penguin UK

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• We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'

  Paul Provenza

  Silly, Talking, People

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Fire, Generosity, Want

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• Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

  Grover Norquist

  Men, Idiot, Conventions

  Grover Norquist @GroverNorquist, twitter.com. July 1, 2012.

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• You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wall, House, Bed

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• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Heart, Earthquakes, House

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• Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Book, Ideas, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.79, Da Capo Press

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• I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Struggle, Artist

  "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

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• As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Philosophical, Reading, Book

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• Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

  Raphael

  Self, Sagging, Gum

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• Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

  Wafa Sultan

  Yield, People, Church

  "For muslim who says violence destroys islam, violent threats". www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2016.

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