Top 1200 Burning Bridges Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

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

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash.

Jive for me always gets me panting and burning the most.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.

I have to eat a lot more in the summer because I'm burning more calories.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

I loved 'Burning Love,' and I really do love almost everything Paul Scheer touches.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.