Top 100 Quotes About Burns
#1. When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins and I can hardly breathe.
Alexandre Dumas
#4. Sometimes our whole life is all about, not letting the fire that burns our homes down become the light that guides us home.
Akshay Vasu
#5. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.
Max Black
#6. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#7. For readers, one of life's more electrifying discoveries is that they ARE readers--not just capable of doing it...but in love with it...The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts...
Stephen King
#8. Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.
Jean Batten
#9. No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
AB De Villiers
#11. ThunderClan is doomed!" "There will be a cat who burns like fire!" "Trust no one, not even your Clanmates. Too many hearts are fickle." "Beware the striped face and snapping teeth!
Erin Hunter
#12. I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
Czeslaw Milosz
#13. There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
Woody Allen
#14. Injuries, burns, and bruises will heal. But victory lasts forever.
Phillipe Nover
#16. Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.
Stephen Levine
#17. Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns
Who plays his pipe among the churns.
He's a coward, he's benighted,
He makes everyone feel slighted,
And all things but music he spurns.
Julia Glass
#18. Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.
Charles Perrow
#19. Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini
#20. Men don't fall in love with women like you, Blaire." He burns me with his gaze. "They lose their fucking minds.
Mia Asher
#21. And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.
Rumi
#22. I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies
You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold
Sara Teasdale
#23. Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.
Scott Hastie
#24. Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.
Teresa Mummert
#25. The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
#26. Becoming an entrepreneur is like walking through flames. You either ignore it, deal with it or be engulfed by it. You must realize when you make it, the burns will heal and you'll become a better person because of it.
James Jean-Pierre
#27. Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
Ramana Maharshi
#28. Put this on your list of things to know: the combination of tinsel, baby angel wings, and manger hay burns like weed at a Miley Cyrus concert.
Stephanie Perkins
#29. I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.
Jim Butcher
#30. He's incredibly perfect in his very nature of existing. He's perfect in his uniqueness. He burns so bright. So bright at times he hurts my eyes. Makes my heart ache from his grace.
Sarah Noffke
#31. We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First
Sebastian Barry
#32. Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
Mark Lawrence
#33. Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!
Michael Moore
#34. When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
George Burns
#35. I'm too hot to handle; poor bitch needs to be treated for burns!
Natalya Vorobyova
#36. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
Robert Browning
#38. Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.
Jorge Cruise
#39. They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They'd all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.
Andy McNab
#40. The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.
Mao Zedong
#41. One day, while at the drugstore picking up some aspirin for my Mom, dear old Mrs. Burns, our pharmacist, shoved a pack of condoms into my hand with a conspiratorial wink.
"They glow in the dark," she whispered.
This, from a sixty-five year-old granny, I kid you not. Stuff of nightmares.
Ramona Wray
#43. A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. So my sister dances and the dead house burns, and I scrawl these few last words by the light of its burning. I know I should toss this story, too, on those flames. But I am still too much a storyteller -or at least a storykeeper-still too much my father's daughter to burn these pages.
Jean Hegland
#47. Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
Boris Sidis
#48. I feel scalded inside. Like, third-degree burns. But no one can see them. (Fliss talking about her divorce.)
Sophie Kinsella
#50. His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down.
Tahereh Mafi
#51. The mist wishes to have the sun but what does the sun do - it burns so fiercely that the mist disappears.
Sumeetha Manikandan
#52. I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something.
Sheriff Toots Burns.
Larry McMurtry
#53. The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.
John Wayne
#54. Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.
Irene Nemirovsky
#55. It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.
Charlie Hunnam
#56. When a story teller dies, a library burns.
Evan Turk
#57. Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it ... the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.
Philip Caputo
#58. Come o'er the sea,
Maiden with me,
Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Thomas Moore
#59. Freedom is taken for granted by the free and longed for by those who never had it. But for those who have lost it, the loss burns like the hottest flame.
S.W. Lothian
#60. Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
Irving Layton
#61. Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame.
Denise Levertov
#62. I think Nesta feels everything - sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly.
Sarah J. Maas
#63. Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
Daniel Johns
#64. Boiling anger burns. Sticks to people like hot melted sugar. Scars and blisters.
Thomas Wymark
#66. Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
#67. He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Quintus Ennius
#68. A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
Adolf Bastian
#69. The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
#70. Do not let fear and anger conquer you. You must conquer them. If you don't, you give your enemy all power over you, and you will never overcome him. Anger uncontrolled flames up fast and hot, and even though you direct this fire at your foe, it is you it burns. Hamiel
Z
#71. I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.
Autumn De Wilde
#72. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.
William Shakespeare
#73. The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
Craig Johnson
#74. Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
Gregory Orr
#75. I feel his body pressed against mine. His heat burns against my flesh; searing, seducing. Permanently making it his.
A.R. Von
#76. We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every red weal or white pucker brings to my mind's eye that eternal fire, and the writhing masses of the damned, among whom I must expect to spend eternity.
Geraldine Brooks
#78. Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them
and others cower in the dark crying, It burns! It burns!
K.A. Laity
#79. Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.
Joan Rivers
#80. I kind of like the thought of God looking like George Burns.
Norm Cowie
#81. The thought makes me angry. I hope the anger burns up all other feelings because it's probably the only thing keeping me on my feet and moving right now.
Susan Ee
#82. For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
John Burnside
#83. It was more than that, he said, looking down briefly at her. Love fades when you die. I am clearly dead, but my love for her hasn't diminished. It still burns inside me like a flicker in a flame.
Rachel M. Greenebaum
#84. This man would not kiss me as I like to be kissed but as he does. His way is too hard, demanding, dangerous. His way is not love. It is passion and it burns. Incinerates.
Karen Marie Moning
#85. Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.
Carl Sagan
#86. By the time the sun burns itself out or global warming does us in, or something else happens in-between, I had to tell this story from the avenue of the less-known and the lesser seen.
Mahesh Ubhayakar
#87. The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
William Hazlitt
#88. No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
Arthur Lydiard
#89. When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow.
Don Rickles
#90. The true energy of Love confidently and unwaveringly burns away all sediment that clings to story while dropping us hard into the naked and raw hum of Right Now.
Elisa Romeo
#91. And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.
Len G. Murray
#92. If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.
Lee Marvin
#93. No one can give you the strength of character necessary ... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
Adyashanti
#94. George Burns ... the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
Ronald Reagan
#95. You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow
Amy Lowell
#96. If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. ... A gnawing burns inside ... to make something of myself worth giving.
Minor White
#97. The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
Felix Adler
#98. It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
Samuel Beckett
#99. Sara?"
Blake's voice is scorching and burns right through me.
"Yes, sir?"
"Lock the door and get over my knee. Now.
Felicity Brandon
#100. When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.
Allan Dare Pearce
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