Burning Quotes

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
Robert Crumb

Sex, Passion, Sure

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes

Change, Able, Baby

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.
Kathy Freston

Fat, Calories, Metabolism

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek

Age, Great, End

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau

Attraction, Abstract, Dominated

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

Religion, History, War

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
Todd Tiahrt

Down, Remember, Others

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.
John Olver

Understand, Energy, Research

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.
John Olver

Energy, Times, Since

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Hjalmar Schacht

Peace, Through, Wrong

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky

Heart, Fire, Path

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?
Stan Freberg

Night, Saturday, Taking

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
John Dingell

Living, Read, Books

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
Aleksandar Hemon

Life, Why, Story

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

Time, Enemy, Impossible

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Saskya Pandita

Beauty, Though, Behavior

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
Larry Page

Society, Try, Whole

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan

God, Fire, While

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
Claire Bloom

Ambition, Otherwise

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
Barney Ross

Black, Harbor, Ships

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.
Ruth Wilson

Life, Beautiful, Around

When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'
Rosario Dawson

Him, Away, Girlfriend

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
Billy Sheehan

Important, Whatever, Desire

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells

Women, America, Nation

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
Rick Renzi

Home, Positive, Help

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.
Kyle Shewfelt

Fire, Inside, Focused

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.
Terry Jones

Time, Strong, Against

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
Klaus Fuchs

Home, Morning, Why

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

Work, Live, Passion

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