Top Burning Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Burning quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of E. O. Wilson
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
- E. O. Wilson
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Image of Ruta Sepetys
He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.
- Ruta Sepetys
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Image of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Image of Osamu Dazai
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes.
- Osamu Dazai
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Image of Jaclyn Moriarty
I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.
- Jaclyn Moriarty
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Image of Camille Desmoulins
Burning is no answer.
- Camille Desmoulins
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Image of Jerry Pournelle
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
- Jerry Pournelle
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Image of Christopher Flavin
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.
- Christopher Flavin
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Image of Chris Crutcher
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
- Chris Crutcher
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Image of Ryan Montgomery
When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.
- Ryan Montgomery
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Image of David Luiz
Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.
- David Luiz
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Image of Isaac Bonewits
Never Again the Burning.
- Isaac Bonewits
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Image of Edith Hahn Beer
I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.
- Edith Hahn Beer
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Image of Harriet Van Horne
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.
- Harriet Van Horne
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Image of Ellen Key
All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
- Ellen Key
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Image of Anne Marie Miller
God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.
- Anne Marie Miller
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Image of Zachary Levi
I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.
- Zachary Levi
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Image of Janet Malcolm
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
- Janet Malcolm
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Image of Tom Peters
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
- Tom Peters
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Image of Cole Porter
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
- Cole Porter
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Image of Voltaire
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
- Voltaire
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Image of Rick Riordan
We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully. “Noticed!” I yelled back.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Lorrie Moore
If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
- Lorrie Moore
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Image of Sylvia Plath
I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Charles Spurgeon
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Image of Howard Zinn
Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.
- Howard Zinn
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Image of Terry Pratchett
The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Antonin Scalia
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
- Antonin Scalia
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Image of Maggie Stiefvater
All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.
- Maggie Stiefvater
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Image of Rick Riordan
Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Anne Carson
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
- Anne Carson
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Image of Warsan Shire
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
- Warsan Shire
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Image of Charles Bukowski
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
- Charles Bukowski
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Image of Jean Cocteau
I am burning myself up and will always do so.
- Jean Cocteau
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Image of Mason Cooley
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of George Eliot
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
- George Eliot
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Image of Paulo Freire
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.
- Paulo Freire
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Image of James G. Frazer
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
- James G. Frazer
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Sebastian Junger
Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.
- Sebastian Junger
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Image of Federico Garcia Lorca
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
- Federico Garcia Lorca
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Image of Neal A. Maxwell
We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
- Neal A. Maxwell
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