Burning Quotes - Page 5

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

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?'

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.