Fiery Quotes

• I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stars, Moon, Flames

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• Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Dark, Flames

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Passion, Bodybuilding

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• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Fun

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• My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

  Emile Zola

  Soul, Cry, Protest

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.

  Kent Nerburn

  Beautiful, God, Morning

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library

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• Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Heart, Oxygen

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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  Fisher Ames

  Volcanoes, Democracy, Way

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24

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• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.234

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• There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

  John Galsworthy

  Stars, Spring, Sunset

  John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Love Is, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.107, New World Library

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• They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Eye

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• A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

  Robert Schumann

  Beginners, Mediocrity, Masters

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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• I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Stars, Moon

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• I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heartless, Wish, Loses

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• The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Personality, Moments

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• I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

  Jim Morrison

  Stars, Looks, Gone

  "Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip" by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams, (p. 152), 2003.

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• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  Ellen G. White

  True Love, Wise, Strong

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• The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Weak, Obstinacy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Kings, Men

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• I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness personally - my mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me. And that's something I want to post on every mirror in my house: This is not about you!

  Pink

  Mom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  Hanna Rosin

  Feminist, Type

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• Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

  Vita Sackville-West

  Autumn, Slippers, West

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• Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love Is, Sound, Tone

  1954 The Desert Music, 'The Orchestra'.

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• Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ice, Apathy, Lenses

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