Burning Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

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.

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

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

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.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

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.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

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.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

What is to give light must endure burning.