Burning Quotes - Page 11

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Burn brightly without burning out.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.