Fire Quotes
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How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
Arun Manilal Gandhi
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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
Walt Whitman
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
Homer
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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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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
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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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I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Jamie Oliver
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
Dan Snow
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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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Fire the doubters out of your life.
Ray Bradbury
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I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
John Niven
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Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
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And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy careTurn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
John Dryden
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Virginia Woolf
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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
Joseph Heller
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Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
Al Aronowitz
