Burning Quotes

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. View quote
Sigmund Freud
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
What is to give light must endure burning. View quote
Viktor Frankl
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. View quote
Karel Čapek
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. (Carl Sandburg)
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. View quote
Gustave Moreau
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. View quote
E. O. Wilson
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Tiger Tiger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry. View quote
William Blake
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
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. View quote
Saskya Pandita
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. View quote
Cornelia Funke
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)
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. View quote
Gavin DeGraw
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. View quote
Tanya Tucker
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace. View quote
Ba Jin
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman