Fire Quotes
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'
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You may fire when you are ready Gridley.
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
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And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
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I am ashes where once I was fire.
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
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Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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"When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out"
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This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.
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That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that.
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.
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After that he began to talk excitedly about the plays of Beckett: Ah, how he liked those guys buried in the ground up to their necks; and how beautiful the statement was about the fire that the present kindles inside you; and, even though among the thousand evocative things that Maddy and Dan Rooney said he had had a hard time picking out the precise point cited by Lila, well, the concept that life is felt more when you are blind, deaf, mute, and maybe without taste or touch was objectively interesting in itself.
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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
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And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy careTurn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
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They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
