Quotation Explorer - 'Burns'

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond. - Debasish Mridha
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears and it does nothing. - Alexander Herzen
Just like a candle burns its flame, my heart burns it’s everlasting love for you. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
The sacred lamp burns to give light - Lailah Gifty Akita
When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes! - Oprah Winfrey
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass. - Thomas Adams
Truth burns up error. - Sojourner Truth
Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed. - Thomas Cahill
Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth. - Dave Gorman
Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack. - Teresa Tsalaky
The sun that warms is also the sun that burns. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger is a fire that burns you from both ends. - Debasish Mridha
When we are unable to shine that natural light within, it burns us from our very core. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow - Amy Lowell
Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime. - Tess Callahan
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge
Truth is a fire that burns and shines.
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
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away - Sarah Addison Allen
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke - Vincent Van Gogh
If a fire burns to bright its probally not burning at all - Andy Pauley
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails. - Agnostic Zetetic
You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it. - Shannon L. Alder
An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew - Michael Bassey Johnson
Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart. - Debasish Mridha
Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity. - Abhijit Naskar
I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself. - Abby Norman
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou
Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals! - Gwen Ro
We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,And we do not fear its light,Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,For therein lies our power.-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves - Chris Evans
The paper burns, but the words fly free. - Akiba Ben Joseph
Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever. - Scott Hastie
The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul." ** - Chiki101
Hope burns eternal in the human heart. - O.R. Melling
The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace. - H.A. Ironside
and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns. - César Vallejo
Try to control your anger before it burns your life. - Debasish Mridha
my dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky. - Sanober Khan
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski
Every old man that dies is a library that burns. - Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Your love is blissful, graceful, and divine. When it touches me, it burns me with joy to purify. - Debasish Mridha
Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. - Gabriela M. Sanchez
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found. - Terence McKenna
Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden. - raja shakeel mushtaque
The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society. - John Mark Reynolds
CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low,it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright. - Piet Hein
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