#burning

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

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

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. ↗

— George Meredith

#burning #jealousy #love

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#burning desire #desire #fresh #had #i

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. ↗

— William Hague

#burning #countries #described #euro #exits

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#another #balls #burned #burning #coals

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#eating #entirely #fake #performance

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#burning #gets #heart #philosophy #poetry