Fire Quotes
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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I will never let the vestal fire go out in my innermost recesses’: people feel that vestal fire and they feel that its possessor is sacred: they will not harm him. He walks unharmed amongst people reputed savage because they honor what is most good in man.
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Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.
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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
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In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm itself. There was none of that sense of urgeful, pushing life that robs even a calm spring day of the sense of silence; life was over and the year was just waiting, harboring its strength for the final storms and turmoil of its death. The warmth and the color of maturity was there, exultant and burning, visible to the eyes, but the prophecy of decay was felt in a faint shiver of cold at morning and evening and a tiny sigh of the elms at midnight when a wandering ghost of a wind plucked a little of their gold away from them.
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We are flying over a ball of fire.
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Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
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It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.
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Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
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This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!
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He was on fire, she could almost touch the rage. He could scare people. He could make anyone afraid, if he wanted to.
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
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October 17th Sunday Dresden I am by the fire with not another light but it … It is now after 5. All was dark excep the fire. I lay by it and listened to the wind and thought of the times at home in the country when I lay by the fire with some hickory nuts until like the slave who Again he is king by the banks of the niger Again he can hear the wild roar of the tiger Again I was lying by the roaring fire (with the cold October wind shrieking outside) in the cheerful lighted room and I turned around half expecting to see it all again and stern reality forced itself upon me and I thought of the time that would come never, never, never.
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
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There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.
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The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
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I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.
