Fire Quotes
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Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child...
Eric Murray -
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Seneca the Younger
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Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
Ezra Pound -
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKenna -
You had better run from me. My words are fire.
Rumi -
When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.
Rene Girard -
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
Thomas Carlyle -
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox
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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 -
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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 -
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard -
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Gautama Buddha -
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I am ashes where once I was fire.
Lord Byron -
When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
Ethel Smyth -
Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.
Bob Teague -
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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
Theodore Roethke
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If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
Terence McKenna -
All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.
Mystikal -
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?
Charles Dickens -
When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
Richard Pryor