Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Freire

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Mark Ruffalo

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

Several of these fires got away and were burning very close to homes and communities.

Buddy Baker

(On Rick Hendrick and Felix Sabates) Well I don't know which one has more money, but I'll tell you what. Either one could burn a wet mule with hundred dollar bills.

CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales.

Burnout happens, not because we're trying to solve problems but because we've been trying to solve the same problem over and over and over.

Burning cars is rather typically French. The last two weeks have been unusual, but it is more common than people realize.

Burnett threw well. For us to see the velocity come back is real good.

Robert Kirkman

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

For me the challenge is to make sure the shows are good this year and to not burn out,

From my viewpoint, I don't know if it's not a burning issue for the people, or they don't know it's going on. We'd like to have public input and know what they think, but they're just not coming.

I don't think we're doing our kids a service anymore. We're starting too young. We're burning them out. We're doing too much too early.

If it's not required to use the highest octane gas, don't do it. You're just burning money.

Paul Stanley

If it looks like it tomorrow then I'll jump to it. We're not going to evacuate this time, though. We didn't evacuate through Ivan. We did at Dennis, and we're kind of burned out on it. We're just going to stay here and ride it out unless we get to a real-real big (Category) 4.

One of the most important reasons for this is that as you increase muscle and lose fat you increase your metabolism - the rate you burn calories. The more muscle you have, the more efficient and effective your metabolism. That not only helps you lose weight, it helps you keep the weight off.

I would hate to have to prepare to play my team. At any time, and one of the five guys on the court can burn you.

If we had six people all burning the same day, and three of them get out of control, I can't handle that. I catch a lot of flak for not issuing more burn permits, but I'd rather catch flak than be out there all the time.

If they didn't get the price they wanted, they were going to burn it.

If they would quit burning until it rains, it would help a lot.

Somebody had to do it. Whether they intended to burn it down isn't known.

Shriners opened their first hospital in 1923. Our main objective is to provide orthopedic and burn care to underprivilaged children.

I look for flags. I look for burning smoke. I look for trees wiggling in the wind,

Jerry Pournelle

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!

Jean Cocteau

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

George Eliot

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Honest people don't tell you they're honest. Cool people don't say that they're cool. We should all be wondering why these guys feel a burning need to tell us how good they are.

Dar Williams

But I live and I know that I burn as I grow.

Hoteliers love it. When there are few rooms available, no one has to sleep in a smoking room. And you don't have to worry about burn holes in the carpet.

Jack Herer

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

Chris Wallace

My feeling was, if we're going to tell the story about people rioting and burning down embassies, it's part of the story to know what it is that has caused such outrage.