Burned Quotes

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

Anger, Someone, Else

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forget, Saying, Two

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright

Birthday, Happy, Down

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace, Happiness, Pain

Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Enlightens

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix

Love, Time, Sacrifice

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

Making, Progress, Books

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Angry, Give

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard M. Nixon

Through, Spend, Retire

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo Basho

Since, Moon, Brighter

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

Political, Games, Arc

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams

Words, Word, Hand

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
Tommy Lasorda

Love, Girl, Tired

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.
Jenny McCarthy

Girl, Hard, Fire

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
Summer Altice

Play, Reason, Inside

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
Ben Stein

Good, Times, Wild

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine

Men, End, Books

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman

Time, True, Long

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
J. B. Priestley

War, Democracy, Before

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz

History, Society, Ideas

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
Rick Springfield

Pretty, Getting, Issues

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Edward James Olmos

Beauty, Down, Two

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
Muqtada al Sadr

Nothing, Become, Paper

Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.
Sherri Shepherd

Love, Great, Rock

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
Zane Grey

Cannot, Learn, Sincerity

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
Morris Chestnut

Character, Friend, Die

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
David Copperfield

Fire, Down, Old

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
Thabo Mbeki

Time, Point, View

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
Juliana Hatfield

Rock, Long, Lost

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.
Anne Hathaway

Good, Bad, Done

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