Fire Quotes
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
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I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
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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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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
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It only takes sparks to light a fire
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True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
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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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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.'
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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.
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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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We are flying over a ball of fire.
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The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
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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?
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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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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
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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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Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
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All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead.
