John Dryden Quotes
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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I fought fire with oil.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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After Cadbury, the candy company, separated from Dr. Pepper, the soft drinks maker, Cadbury was able to substantially lower its debt load. The profits of Cadbury, the candy company, zoomed.
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
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The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.
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Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
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And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy careTurn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
