As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. . . Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.
How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?
My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
I wish the fire burned my leg hair off
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.
I've always burned my bridges before me.
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low
Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.
I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion. . . But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose!. . . These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!
It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.
My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.
