But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.
It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.
. . . I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.
If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. . . . Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter. . . . Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
Walking on rocks, hurts. Walking on glass, cuts. Walking on hot coals, burns. Walking on someones heart, kills.
Love burns across the infinitude.
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.