Burns Quotes - page 2

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,- You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold. (Sara Teasdale)
One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us to dare the stars, This irresistible, this ancient power Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space. View quote
Philip José Farmer
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. View quote
Heinrich Heine
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a fire that burns unseen. View quote
Luís de Camões
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she that burns in t. View quote
William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. View quote
William Shakespeare
To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. (Barack Obama)
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die. View quote
Mike Tyson
The fire's hottest for the one who burns himself. View quote
Halldór Laxness
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Vengeance burns, Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you. View quote
Michelle Paver
Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome. View quote
Rick Riordan
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. View quote
Irving Stone
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. View quote
Arthur Lydiard
The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. View quote
Jordan Peterson
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. (Marsha M. Linehan)
Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. View quote
Bobby Darin
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? View quote
Bobby Darin
George Burns was the father I never had. View quote
Bobby Darin
Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. View quote
Caroline Rhea