Fire Quotes
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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
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
Gautama Buddha
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
John Roger Stephens
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I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.
Harry Triguboff
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Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
Charles Hummel
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
Dan Snow
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We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
Austan Goolsbee
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In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.
Martin Heidegger
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Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
Carrie Fletcher
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Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
Ernst Zundel
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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
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
William Jennings Bryan
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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
Martin Luther
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When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.
Richard Pryor
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I heard there’s fire in hell, but I’ll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain’t gonna clean itself.
Catherynne M. Valente
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
Willa Cather
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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
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And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
Arthur Plotnik
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I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.... There was no greeting ceremony and we were basically told to run to our cars. That is what happened.
Hillary Clinton
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
Robert Frost
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You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!
Dylan Moran