Famous Quotes & Sayings

They were threatened with the burning of their houses.

They looted everything, raped the women and shot the children. After, they burned it all down,

They (Hunter) did a pretty good job of shutting down our guards. So we just started passing it to the post and burned them with 16 points in the paint.

It's like the cow that kicked the candle, that burned the barn, that started the Great Chicago Fire.

It's going to be good but it's going to be weird because we'll be thinking about how it burned down.

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

For a generation of consumers who have known Nike for being nothing less than their brand, it's their generation's Coca-Cola, burned into their consciousness, burned into an entire generation. The same can't be said for Adidas.

It slows the rate of fire spread. It actually will put the fire out and burn on through. This stuff, when the fire burns up to it, it completely puts it out ... if it's mixed right.

It's likely to continue burning for some days, if not weeks.

It's a lot better when they are running. You can smell the fuel. You can smell the burnt rubber. Ideally, the students can feel, hear, see and smell how calculus works.

Mother Teresa

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Maggie Stiefvater

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

Katherine Heigl

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

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.

Neil Young

It is better to burn out then fade away

Lorrie Moore

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

Olivia Wilde

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

Margaret Bourke-White

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted

For the last six minutes, we are essentially in white-knuckle time, wondering if we're going to actually complete the burn and go into orbit.

There's definitely some good reasons to have a no burn warning right now, because it was fast.

At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

As soon as (Cliff) stepped onstage, the rain stopped, the clouds parted, the moon came out. Jimmy Cliff did two hours and completely burns out the crowd. Fela comes out and the rain pours again,

About three years in between fires is enough that a wildfire will burn pretty well. It's not a matter of if it's going to burn, it's when. Fires are natural in Florida.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Ramez Naam

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

Sebastian Junger

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Mason Cooley

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

If their home burned down today, they'd have to put a double-wide up. Those lots are not big enough to put a double-wide there.

It has had a history of non-violence for the last 50 years and these measures are like what we have seen in Uzbekistan where President (Islam) Karimov has been burning his political opponents alive.

Jess Walter

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'