Fire Quotes
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
Constance Spry
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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare
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Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.
Kenelm Digby
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With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.
Charles Krauthammer
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If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
Aaron Allston
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The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong.
Barry Pain
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley Warner
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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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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
William Shakespeare
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
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Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
John Wesley
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
Conn Iggulden
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas
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Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
Paul Stanley Kiss
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I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
Red Adair
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There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.
Alexander Haig
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Into the deep blue, we’ll do this together- water and fire, reach higher. There’s no turning back.
Beatrice Miller
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What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
Jose Ferreira
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Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
William Morris
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Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child