Burning Quotes - Page 4

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Burning is no answer.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

Life consists of burning up questions.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.