Burning Quotes

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

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.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

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.

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

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

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.

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

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