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Burning Quotes (page 31)

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Khalil Gibran
Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face. Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge. Eduardo Galeano
Mary Oliver quote: "The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and..."
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own. Mary Oliver
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! Rudyard Kipling
William Shakespeare quote: "I can see he's not in your good books,' said the..."
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library. William Shakespeare
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial... William S. Burroughs
THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! Tom Stoppard
Oprah Winfrey quote: "When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!"
When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes! Oprah Winfrey
At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving... J. K. Rowling
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. John Updike
Patti Smith quote: "Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That..."
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith
As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street. Christopher Hitchens
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. J. R. R. Tolkien
All life is but a skull-bone A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel— just so’s we can burn so furious beautiful. Jack Kerouac

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