Burns Quotes

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Anger, Fire, Bitterness

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey

Future, Eyes, Bright

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night, Friends, Light

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Heart, Cannot

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Famous, Him, Stuff

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Rain, Fire

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams

Live, Fire, Down

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach

Fire, Lives, Perfection

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Truth, Between, Pure

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.
Kim Kardashian

Family, Down, Put

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas

Nice, Fire, Makes

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin

Great, Live, End

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid

Bright, Clean, Oil

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks

Music, Christmas, Heart

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge

Between, Difference, Longer

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Kim Elizabeth

Love, Dreams, Best

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
Caroline Rhea

Happy, Yourself, Someone

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham

Fire, Dead, Fall

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Margaret Walker

Age, Today, Evil

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
Jon Meacham

Life, Diet, Hard

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Good, Health

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
Alison Sweeney

Love, Music, Work

You know what burns me? Matches.
Jay London

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens

Fire, Taught, Novel

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
Bobby Darin

Father, Word, Symbol

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
Bobby Darin

Makes, Shoes, Hear

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
Bobby Darin

Love, Business, Care

George Burns was the father I never had.
Bobby Darin

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.
Peter Benenson

Candle, Prison, Shot

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
Tom Waits

Loved, Performer, Vaudeville

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