Fire Quotes
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I will never let the vestal fire go out in my innermost recesses’: people feel that vestal fire and they feel that its possessor is sacred: they will not harm him. He walks unharmed amongst people reputed savage because they honor what is most good in man.
Christina Stead -
Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.
Bob Teague
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul de Man -
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Eugenio Montale -
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Seneca the Younger -
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard -
She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
Catherynne M. Valente -
You had better run from me. My words are fire.
Rumi
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Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
Ezra Pound -
When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
Ethel Smyth -
I am ashes where once I was fire.
Lord Byron -
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Gautama Buddha -
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
Thomas Carlyle -
When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.
Rene Girard
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
Ray Bradbury -
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
Ray Bradbury -
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
Stevie Smith -
Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
Eloise Lownsbery -
If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
Terence McKenna -
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
Ray Bradbury -
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
Rumi -
All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.
Mystikal -
Into the deep blue, we’ll do this together- water and fire, reach higher. There’s no turning back.
Beatrice Miller