#burn

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#candle #disappeared #failed #kidnapped #prison

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. ↗

— Nikolai Berdyaev

#burns #clash #pure #tragic #truth

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#burns #couple #difficult #five #guys

You wouldn't know what the fuck to do in a dangerous situation if your life depended on it. And it would, little one. ↗

— T.E. Sivec

#burn #dangerous #garrett #parker #playing-with-fire

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years. ↗

— Michael Flatley

#been #burnt #crisp #even #go

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#down #get #hating #hating people #house

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#another #been #being #burned #choosing

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#back #being #burning #burning desire #cuddly

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. ↗

— Robert Hass

#autumn #burns #california #clarifies #coast