#burning

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#burning #bush #cave #eats #every

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#building #burning #firemen #into #people

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

It occurred to me that my cheek was probably right over his tattoo. Without thinking, I lifted my face and tugged at the neckline of his T-shirt. This time, the stark black-and-gold mark wasn't hidden. No need for that spell anymore, I guess. Still, I covered it with my palm. Archer's hands clutched reflexively on my waist. Our eyes met. "It doesn't burn this time," I whispered. His breathing was ragged. "Beg to differ, Mercer. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#hex-hall #love #relationship #tattoo #love

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-angel #clockwork-prince #jem-carstairs #love

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous." "Men like that always are. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#books #burn #dangerous #men

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

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#amount #burning #course #destruction #gradual

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having