Fire Quotes
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A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?
Caesarius of Arles -
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill -
I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. "I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too." "I'd walk through fire for you," he rasped, his voice hoarse and broken. "I have walked through fire for you.
Elizabeth Hoyt -
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Sophocles -
Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
Cynthia Erivo -
Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb...Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
James Lovelock -
I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.
George Newbern
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The Internet is an actual dumpster fire.
Franchesca Ramsey -
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton -
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
Saint Augustine -
Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.
Bryce Dessner The National -
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
Bahá'u'lláh -
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
Joel Osteen
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I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
Darcey Bussell -
March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
David McCord -
I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
Elizabeth McCracken -
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Tertullian -
I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It's not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it doesn't.
Beth Revis -
Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
Mike Tyson
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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron -
Over the next 40 years, he rose to lead that department. Pop was the tall, strong, silent type, quiet and dignified, and passionate about the rule of law. Back during Prohibition, he heard that bootleggers were running beer through fire hoses between Yonkers and the Bronx.
James Comey -
A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.
Kevin Mitnick -
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.
Scott Westerfeld