Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Ellen Key

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

Charlotte Ross

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.

Louie Gohmert

It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.

Ben Shapiro

Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.

Chris Vance

The only effect it could have is burning out our donors. I don't think that's going to happen. The people who donate to the state candidate fund are different than those who donate for anything else.

We have had a numerous requests from residents who wish to burn small amounts of debris.

We could never get it straight to what we were trying to get to. It was a combination. Our guards were getting hung up on the pick. They definitely burned us on it.

We have two dozers work on a line from the top, the fire is spotty, ... There's a lot of spots where it has not burned yet.

Paul Deacon

We have to watch out and not burn ourselves out even when we're way ahead.

Ruth Reed

We were hoping they'd burn one more time before they shut down. But I don't think they want to give us an ounce of evidence.

Sean Burke

We didn't strike, we were locked out. I've often thought the owners set this all up to burn a season and create lots of free agents. That's not what I call negotiating fairly. I hope the PA (executive) fights for it, but I'm not optimistic they'll win.

Billy Joel

We didn't start the fireBut when we are goneWill it still burn on and on and on...

We are no more than candles burning in the wind

Sarah MacLean

That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.

William Butler Yeats

Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;

Tim Howard

Three mornings a week, I exercise before eating - it's called 'fasted cardio' - to burn fat.

Kofi Annan

thousands of villages have been burnt and more than a million people forced from their homes. In all about 1.3 million need immediate assistance.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .

While temperature will ease overnight the fires will continue to burn and we won't know the real damage until the morning.

We generally survey the fire chiefs. If they want a burn ban, we issue it.

Use them wisely, don't let them burn all the way down. Especially don't let them burn when you go to sleep. We use the saying the easiest fire to put out is the one you prevent.'

We're really not trying to make it miserable for people. But it's burning electricity. Our quick estimate is that it's costing us $100,000 per year.

We're really looking for the cooperation of the public that's what makes this work. Hopefully they can hold off on burning until the conditions change a little bit.

Paul O'Grady

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Philipp Meyer

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

David J. C. MacKay

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

Hugh Johnson

We call it a potential critical fire danger stage. We extremely discourage any outside burning during a red flag.

Jim Bishop

While not being able to burn debris may inconvenience some individuals, holding off from burning until fire conditions are less dangerous makes good sense.

James Hansen

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

Janet Montgomery

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

We seem to be burning just about everywhere, and our resources are very thin.