Fire Quotes
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Stephen Ambrose -
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
Paul Gauguin
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This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
Ben Sherwood -
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.
Edmund Morris -
The fiercest fire is hatred.
Gautama Buddha -
All those calls and meetings were fire fighting. I remind myself. No fires, no fighting. Now, everything is running smoothly— almost too smoothly.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
Try not to wake up on fire.
Eugene Mirman
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When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
Thomas Carlyle -
When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.
Patrick Pichette -
Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
Chiara Lubich -
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
Seneca the Younger -
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
Stephen Vizinczey
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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.
Susanne Langer -
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
Albert Camus -
Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.
Anthony Robbins -
The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace.
Elizabeth Bear -
Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.
Ray Bradbury -
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!
Anzia Yezierska
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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.
Eddie O'Sullivan -
All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
Theodore Roethke -
I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
Steve Martin