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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. — Jon Ronson

What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open? — Norodom Sihanouk

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. — Timothy Ferriss

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground. — Julian Assange

We often learn to see the beauties when we are burning by miseries. — Debasish Mridha

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. — Elizabeth Edwards

The pace of decision-making at startups is way faster than it is at big companies. It has to be because most startups are burning cash. — Anonymous

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal. — Van Jones

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling. — Arianna Huffington

Every death is like the burning of a library. — Alex Haley

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. — Mason Cooley

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross. — Martha Ostenso

If I were a burning smolder, he was the poker, stirring
me into flames. — S. Jae-Jones

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. — Tracey Ullman

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. — James A. Forbes

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough. — Rachel Caine

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. — Aleksandra Mir

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. — Henry Rollins

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. — Kevin DeYoung

The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood. — Steven Johnson

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. — Andre Breton

The only church that illuminates is a burning church. — Buenaventura Durruti

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain. — Rodman Philbrick

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed ... — Daniel Gilbert

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. — Hanif Kureishi

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check. — Woody Allen

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. — Anne Carson

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. — Markus Zusak

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. — Lauren Oliver

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles. — Cormac McCarthy

I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself. — Charles Bukowski

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could. — Barbara Kingsolver

She once was heaven and now she's the hell I'm burning in. — Mia Asher

He thought the feud was live ash a boot heel could stomp out. He didn't notice it burning down both their houses. — Anna-Marie McLemore

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. — Albert Schweitzer

She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black. — Rick Yancey

No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal. — Alice Hoffman

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning. — Vincent Van Gogh

She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations. — Sylvain Reynard

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. — Gary Snyder

On the metaphysical front, the burning of sage is unsucessful. House reeks of doom, and now sage too. — Suzanne Finnamore

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire? — William Blake

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle. — Wes Fesler

Nick leaned forward, his eyes practically burning. Or maybe the rumor is true. Maybe you didn't kill him because you're in love with him. — Rachel Hawkins

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens. — George Martin

He looked up in despair at the starry sky, he struck his burning chest with his fist; he loved and he was not loved! — Gaston Leroux

Hope is when against all odds a tiny flame keeps burning for the possibility. — Tilicia Haridat

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. — Augustine Birrell

The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil. — James Lovelock

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. — Martin Luther

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!! — Neil Leckman

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt

She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands. — Honore De Balzac

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. — Holly Black

But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn. — Sabaa Tahir

A special spark rises
from the sorrow of a burning heart.
Have you ever heard
how the sigh of a broken heart
touches the Beloved? — Rumi

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds. — Christopher Hitchens

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

But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things,
with hope burning in their hearts. — Sherry Thomas

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil. — Will Durant

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air — E. E. Cummings

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children. — Irving Greenberg

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire? — Imran Khan

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. — Dorothy Parker

- you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always - — A. L. Kennedy

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you. — Karen Maitland

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning. — Zbigniew Herbert

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified. — P.D. Ouspensky

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith

She was melting inside. Melting and burning all at the same time. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce. — Gary Paulsen

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless — Elizabeth Cunningham

Everything started the night I saw the burning man fall from the sky. — Gwen Hayes

Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry. — Steven Gould

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

... but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From they sack and they belly opened
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes. — Philip Levine

Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot. — Anne Golon

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live. — J.D. Salinger

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. — Elizabeth Bowen

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning. — K. A. Paul

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together? — Charlie Jane Anders

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. — Gavin DeGraw

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written. — Jerome Lawrence

We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace. — Debasish Mridha

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire. Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio. — Michael Grant

I want to rekindle the inner fire that is burning in you. I want it to come out to take away the darkness. — Debasish Mridha

The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains. — Gillian Flynn

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky. — NoViolet Bulawayo