Burn Quotes

An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you. (Anacharsis)
It is better to burn out than fade away. View quote
Kurt Cobain
I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles. View quote
Thomas Edison
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. View quote
Joan Crawford
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. View quote
Louis Brandeis
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. View quote
Georg Büchner
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. (Margaret Mead)
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. View quote
Robert Southey
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! View quote
Robert Browning
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Francis Bacon
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
Manuscripts don't burn. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. (Ingeborg Bachmann)
If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. View quote
Richard Burton
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow