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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.
What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.
Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.
There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.
When athletes disrespect the flag and say things about their country that's not prideful, it really hurts me because of the situation that I've had to see my family go through.
When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.
If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.
I ran for Congress to help create a new town square where you don't have to apologize for your beliefs or cower to a mob, where you can kneel before God, but stand for our flag.
Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."
I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.
America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a flag on their porch, and they do have a desire to localize everything and celebrate things locally.
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.
I think that's a question for South Carolin and the last thing they need is people from outside the state coming in and dictating how they should resolve that issue [about flag].
'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
As a nanny i see the way children begin to flag in the run up to lunch time so i know food definitely has a big impact on a child's mental state.
Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.
The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.
I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.