Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

“Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)