#burning

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#better #burning #concentrate #course #effort

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire? ↗

— Imran Khan

#burning #fire #house #out #put

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. ↗

— Barney Ross

#burning #everything #fires #harbor #ships

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#burning #burning desire #desire #i #master

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#burning-up #delirium #fire #lauren-oliver #lena-holloway

What are we going to do, Ayden?" she whispered, glaring up at me. "I don't know," I confessed. "But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?" "I thought it was 'cross' that bridge?" I lightly poked her in the eye and she laughed. "No. We're burning bridges. Crossing is so overrated." I smiled and touched the corner of her eyes, captivated by the iridescent blues. "I think I like the sound of that," she whispered. "Yeah?" "Yeah. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#love #regrets #secrets #love

I have a book of matches. I wrote it myself. The Spanish Inquisitors would love to burn it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#burning-books #funny #humor #matches #spanish-inquisitors

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#against #any #ask #burn #burning

I saw my hometown burning that day. ↗

— Rodney King

#day #hometown #i #saw

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#burning #cookies #explosives #fills #hot