A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
Thomas More

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.
Lee Majors

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

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
Mary Antin

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
J. B. Priestley

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
John Foxe

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
Dave Obey

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
Vinton Cerf

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak Perlman

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.
Virgil Goode

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
Tommy Lasorda

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
Wilfred Burchett

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
Morris Chestnut

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein