#burn

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#ask #because #burning #going #i

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#box #burning #cap #connected #day

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#audrey #audrey hepburn #blame #figure #had

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#burn #find #inside #joy #out

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#any #burn #continued #decent #europe

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#burns #court #dark #fragrant #green

The moon is brighter since the barn burned. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#brighter #burned #moon #since

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner. ↗