Being Burned At The Stake Quotes

#1. In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches ... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

Helen Mirren

#2. Different kinds of crazy hurt in similar ways, like being stoned to death versus being burned at the stake.

Hymn Herself

#3. All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Indira Gandhi

#4. [Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

Joan Of Arc

#5. I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Leonora Carrington

#6. Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gene Spafford

#7. I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Michael Biehn

#8. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." Tennessee Williams

Anton War

#10. Never judge a book by it's cover, the cover is great but the words are even greater.

Ms. Venom

#11. In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Thomas Gold

#12. Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Milan Kundera

#13. Of course, I'm only joking," he says, studying me. "The reason they're staring is because I am extraordinarily good looking.

Penelope King

#14. You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Napoleon Hill

#15. A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Samuel Richardson

#16. To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.

Sergio Garcia

#17. Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

Rick Riordan

#18. One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

H.W. Brands

#19. The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

Allen Ginsberg

#20. The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

Alex Pareene

#21. One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.

Ariel Sharon

#22. Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Jeb Bush