Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.

I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

We burn daylight.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another s; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.

You thought I was a little girl, you thought I was a little mouse, you thought you'd take me by surprise. Now I'm here burning down your house.

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Your fortune stateth: Your goose is cooked. (Your current chick is burned up too!)

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.

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

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

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

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Robert: Hey, that's my pen. You stole it! Joe: No, my father gave me this pen. Robert: Your father is a thief!

There's plenty of good uses for burning people!

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. -- Robert Quillen

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. (Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.);"Heinrich Heine, "Almansor (1821)

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.