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Quotes About Burning

The hall towered, its gables wide and high and awaiting a barbarous burning. [ll. 81-83]
~ Seamus Heaney
There was the smell of pea soup, something burning and confrontation.
~ Markus Zusak
Byly tam hvÄ›zdy. Pálily mÄ› z nich o?i.
~ Markus Zusak
The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ...
~ Martin Amis
and see a fire burning in town.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there
~ Sunday Adelaja
Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.
~ E. Elias Merhige
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
~ Roland Barthes
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...
~ Emma Thompson
But this was true only for the duration of one of these seemingly durationless periods; figure and ground could be reversed, and when one was in the midst of some new intensity, kiss or concussion, one was suddenly composed exclusively of such moments, burning always with this hard, gemlike flame.
~ Ben Lerner
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
~ Gillian Flynn
A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record.
~ Graham Hancock
Massive wildfires occurred at the onset of the Younger Dryas, representing the most anomalous episode of biomass burning in at least 120,000 years and possibly in the past ~386,000 years.
~ Graham Hancock
As we move, a roar like the voice of some satanic creature bellows from the staircase. The fire's voice. I've heard it in lots of places, and the sound turns my insides to jelly. There's a reason human beings will jump ten floors onto concrete to escape being burned alive. That roar is part of it.
~ Greg Iles
I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
~ K. A. Paul
Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
~ K. A. Paul
Do you know how much coal China burns? In 2013, we already were burning 3.6 billion tons. And do you know how much coal the rest of the world burns? We burn more than the rest of the world combined.
~ Chai Jing
Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.
~ David J. C. MacKay
Beg for Love. Consider this burning, and those who burn, as gifts from the Friend. Nothing to learn. Too much has already been said. When you read a single page from the silent book of your heart, you will laugh at all this chattering, all this pretentious learning.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine. She
~ Mary Doria Russell
When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
~ Ayn Rand