Fire Quotes
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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
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It only takes sparks to light a fire
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
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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.
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We are deeply pleased that the government has agreed to the smooth implementation of the cease-fire agreement.
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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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As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
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She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
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Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
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If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.
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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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High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
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What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
