287 Quotes About Burning

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

This problem is exploding in the face of the government, ... They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.

And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

You should be burning by now. If you're not, I don't know what's wrong with you.

Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

It really reflects misplaced priorities when you can go to jail for a longer time for burning a photograph of someone's dog than for burning a dog. The laws just need to catch up with society's values.

Those cards will be burning holes in everyone's pockets.

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.